Choice of Court (Hague Convention) Act 2015

Contracting States and declarations and denunciations under Convention

2. (1) The Minister may, by order declare—

(a) that any state specified in the order is a Contracting State, or

(b) that—

(i) a declaration (the text of which shall be set out in the order) has been made pursuant to Article 19, 20, 21, 22, 26 or 28 of the Convention, or

(ii) a modification or withdrawal thereof (the text of which shall be set out in the order) has been made pursuant to Article 32 of that Convention, or

(iii) a denunciation (the text of which shall be set out in the order) has been made pursuant to Article 33 of that Convention,

to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

(2) An order that is in force under subsection (1) shall be evidence—

(a) as respects any declaration under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) in that order, that any state to which the declaration relates is a Contracting State, and

(b) as respects any declaration under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) in that order, that the declaration, modification, withdrawal or, as the case may be, denunciation concerned was made and of its contents.