HAGUE CONVENTION ON THE CIVIL ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION ACT, 1996

PROCLAMATION
by the
President of the Republic of South Africa

No. R. 65, 1997

HAGUE CONVENTION ON THE CIVIL ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION ACT, 1996 (ACT No. 72 OF 1996)

COMMENCEMENT: HAGUE CONVENTION ON THE CIVIL ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION ACT, 1996

Under section 6 of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction Act, 1996 (Act No. 72 of 1996), I hereby fix 1 October 1997 as the date on which the said Act shall come into operation.

Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Republic of South Africa at Cape Town this Twenty-fifth day of September, One thousand Nine hundred and Ninety-seven.

N. R. MANDELA
President

By Order of the President-in-Cabinet:

A. M. OMAR
Minister of the Cabinet