Application for Return of Child

   9. Application for return of child abducted from New Zealand---(1)
 Where a person claims---
   (a) That a child has been removed from New Zealand to another
         Contracting State; and
   (b) That the child was removed from New Zealand to that other
         Contracting State in breach of that person's rights of custody
         in respect of the child; and
   (c) That at the time of that removal those rights of custody were
         actually being exercised by that person, or would have been so
         exercised but for the removal; and
   (d) That the child was habitually resident in New Zealand immediately
         before the removal,---

 that person may apply in writing to the Authority to have that claim
 transmitted to that other Contracting State.

   (2) Every application under subsection (1) of this section shall be in
 the form prescribed by rules made under the principal Act.

   (3) Where the Authority is satisfied that an application made under
 subsection (1) of this section is in accordance with the requirements of
 the Convention, the Authority shall take on behalf of the applicant any
 action required to be taken by the Authority under the Convention.

       As to the form for application under subs. (1), see reg. 2 (1) of
     S.R. 1991/121.