---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 C.F.R. § 94.1"
title: "22"
number: "94.1"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/22/94.1"
---

# §94.1. Definitions.


For purposes of this part—

- (a) Convention means the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Appendix B to Department of State notice, 51 FR 10498, March 26, 1986.
- (b) Contracting State means any country which is a party to the Convention.
- (c) **Child—** and children mean persons under the age of sixteen.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction; the federal “International Child Abduction Remedies Act,” Pub. L. 100-300.

### Source

Source: 53 FR 23608, June 23, 1988, unless otherwise noted.