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Guardianship of Children Bill 2010

Stage first_chamberUpdated 7d ago

Bill entitled an Act to vindicate the rights of the child pursuant to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 November 1989, to give further effect to the European Convention on Human Rights done at Rome on 4 November 1950, to extend guardianship responsibilities for the purposes of enhancing and better protecting the welfare of children irrespective of the marital status of their parents, to vindicate the right of the child to the society of both of the child's parents, absent compelling circumstances, and to provide for related matters