[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
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[CITE: 22CFR94.3]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 94--INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 94.3  Functions of the Central Authority.

    The U.S. Central Authority shall cooperate with the Central 
Authorities of other countries party to the Convention and promote 
cooperation by appropriate U.S. state authorities to secure the prompt 
location and return of children wrongfully removed to or retained in any 
Contracting State, to ensure that rights of custody and access under the 
laws of one Contracting State are effectively respected in the other 
Contracting States, and to achieve the other objects of the Convention. 
In performing its functions, the U.S. Central Authority may receive 
from, or transmit to, any department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
federal government, or of any state or foreign government, information 
necessary to locate a child or for the purpose of otherwise implementing 
the Convention with respect to a child.