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23. Jurisdiction of High Court to make certain declarations
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The High Court cstablished by Article 154P of the
Constitution for the Western Province may, on an application made by or on behalf of the appropriate authority of a specified country, declare that the removal of a child to that specified country or the retention of that child in that specified country is wrongful within the meaning of Article 3 of the
Convention.
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