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8 International conventions
[Section 8 Substituted by No. 64 of 2013, s. 5, Applied:01 Jul 2016] For the purposes of, and without limiting, section 8B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1931 , any international convention relating to children to which Australia is a signatory and which is in force is extrinsic material in relation to the interpretation of a provision of this Act.
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Examples of conventions are the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (1990) and the International Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007).