Powers of registering court on application to set aside registration. 23 Geo. 5, c. 13, s. 5.
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(ii) if the judgment debtor was plaintiff in, or counter- claimed in, the proceedings in the original court; or
(iii) if the judgment debtor, being a defendant in the original court, had before the commencement of the proceed- ings agreed, in respect of the subject matter of the proceed- ings, to submit to the jurisdiction of that court or of the courts of the country of that court; or
(iv) if the judgment debtor, being a defendant in the original court, was at the time when the proceedings were instituted resident in, or being a body corporate had its principal place of business in, the country of that court; or
(v) if the judgment debtor, being a defendant in the original court, had an office or place of business in the country of that court and the proceedings in that court were in respect of a transaction effected through or at that office or place;
(b) in the case of a judgment given in an action of which the subject matter was immovable property or in an action in rem of which the subject matter was moveable property, if the property in question was at the time of the proceedings in the original court situate in the country of that court;
(c) in the case of a judgment given in an action other than any such action as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of this sub-section, if the jurisdiction of the original court is recognised by the law of the registering court.
(3) Notwithstanding anything in sub-section (2) of this section, the courts of the country of the original court shall not be deemed to have had jurisdiction-
(a) if the subject matter of the proceedings was im- movable property outside the country of the original court: or
(b) except in the cases mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (a) and in paragraph (c) of sub- section (2) of this section, if the bringing of the proceedings in the original court was contrary to an agreement under which the dispute in question was to be settled otherwise than by proceedings in the courts of the country of that court; or
(c) if the judgment debtor, being a defendant in the original proceedings, was a person who under the rules of public international law was entitled to immunity from the jurisdiction of the courts of the conntry of the original court. and did not submit to the jurisdiction of that court.
7.-(1) If, on an application to set aside the registration of a judgment, the applicant satisfies the registering court either that an appeal is pending, or that he is entitled and intends to appeal, against the judgment, the court, if it thinks fit, may, on such terms as it may think just, either set aside the registration or adjourn the application to set aside the registration until after the expiration of such period as appears to the court to be reasonably sufficient to enable the applicant to take the necessary steps to have the appeal disposed of by the competent tribunal.
(2) Where the registration of a judgment is set aside. under the last foregoing sub-section, or solely for the reason that the judgment was not at the date of the application for registration enforceable by execution in the country of the original court, the setting aside of the registration shall not prejudice a further application to register the judgment when
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