market to win.
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ella Subsection (2) limits the application of subsection (1). A person
against whom an overseas judgment for multiple damages was given cannot bene-
fit from the right conferred by subsection (1), even if qualified under the
tests in that subsection, if at the time when the proceedings in which
the judgment was given were instituted it was either an individual who was
ordinarily resident in the overseas country or a body corporate which
had its principal place of business there.
5.
Subsection (3) further limits the application of subsection (1) in
relation to the activities of claimants under that subsection. A person
against whom an overseas judgment for multiple damages was given cannot
benefit from the right conferred by subsection (1) if he carried on business
in the overseas country and the proceedings in which the judgment was given
were concerned with activities exclusively carried on in that country.
b. Subsection (4) provides that a court in the United Kingdom may hear an
action brought under this clause notwithstanding that the person against
whom the proceedings are brought is not within the jurisdiction of the
court.
7. Subsection (5) provides that clause 6 does not apply in relation to
any overseas judgment given before the passage of the Bill.