10Overseas recognition of a Commonwealth protection measure

10 Overseas recognition of a Commonwealth protection measure

(1) The relevant Registrar of a court may, on application by an interested person, send to the Commonwealth central authority for transmission to a central authority of a Convention country: (a) a certified copy of an order that is a protection measure taken under the Act; and (b) any information held by the court relating to the whereabouts of the child concerned; and (c) a request, in writing, that the order be recognised in the Convention country. (2) Documents received by the Commonwealth central authority under subregulation (1) must be sent to a central authority of the Convention country. (3) Nothing in this regulation prevents an interested person from obtaining, and sending to a central authority of a Convention country, or a competent authority of a Convention country or a non‑Convention country, copies of the documents and information mentioned in paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) with a request for recognition of the order.