Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00859:schedule:1:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00859
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 2/63)
Character Range: 1055541–1058360

States;

e to establish such co‑operation between the authorities of the Contracting States as may be necessary in order to achieve the purposes of this Convention.

2 For the purposes of this Convention, the term 'parental responsibility' includes parental authority, or any analogous relationship of authority determining the rights, powers and responsibilities of parents, guardians or other legal representatives in relation to the person or the property of the child.

Article 2

The Convention applies to children from the moment of their birth until they reach the age of 18 years.

Article 3

The measures referred to in Article 1 may deal in particular with—

a the attribution, exercise, termination or restriction of parental responsibility, as well as its delegation;

b rights of custody, including rights relating to the care of the person of the child and, in particular, the right to determine the child's place of residence, as well as rights of access including the right to take a child for a limited period of time to a place other than the child's habitual residence;

c guardianship, curatorship and analogous institutions;

d the designation and functions of any person or body having charge of the child's person or property, representing or assisting the child;

e the placement of the child in a foster family or in institutional care, or the provision of care by kafala or an analogous institution;

f the supervision by a public authority of the care of a child by any person having charge of the child;

g the administration, conservation or disposal of the child's property.

Article 4

The Convention does not apply to—

a the establishment or contesting of a parent‑child relationship;

b decisions on adoption, measures preparatory to adoption, or the annulment or revocation of adoption;

c the name and forenames of the child;

d emancipation;

e maintenance obligations;

f trusts or succession;

g social security;

h public measures of a general nature in matters of education or health;

i measures taken as a result of penal offences committed by children;

j decisions on the right of asylum and on immigration.

CHAPTER II—JURISDICTION

Article 5

1 The judicial or administrative authorities of the Contracting State of the habitual residence of the child have jurisdiction to take measures directed to the protection of the child's person or property.

2 Subject to Article 7, in case of a change of the child's habitual residence to another Contracting State, the authorities of the State of the new habitual residence have jurisdiction.

Article 6

1 For refugee children and children who, due to disturbances occurring in their country, are internationally displaced, the authorities of the Contracting State on the territory of which these children are present as