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FOREIGN JUDGMENTS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT)

ORDINANCE, 1960.

(No. 13 of 1960).

FOREIGN JUDGMENTS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT) Order, 1961.

WHEREAS it is provided by sections 3 and 9 of the Foreign Preamble. Judgments (Reciproca! Enforcement) Ordinance, 1960, as amended by the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) (Amendment) Ordin- ance. 1961, that where the Governor in Council is satisfied that, in the event of the benefits conferred by the said Ordinance being extended to judgments given in the superior courts of any foreign country or of any country in the British Commonwealth to which the Reciprocal Enforce- ment of Judgments (General Application to His Majesty's Dominions, etc.) Order, 1933, or any Order in Council varying such Order, applies, substantial reciprocity of treatment will be assured as respects the enforcement in that country of judgments given in the superior courts of the Colony, he may by order direct that the provisions of the said Ordinance shall extend to that country and may further direct that such counts of that country as are specified in the order shall be deemed superior courts of that country for the purposes of the said Ordinance:

AND WHEREAS the Governor in Council is satisfied that such sub- stantial reciprocity of treatment will be assured in each of the countries specified in the Schedule hereto;

NOW THEREFORE the Governor in Council, in exercise of the afore-

Hid power, hereby directs, and it is hereby directed, as follows-

1. This Order may be cited as the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Citation. Enforcement) Order, 1961.

Ordinance.

The Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Ordinance, Extension of 1960, (hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance) shall extend to judgments given in the superior courts of any of the countries specified lo the Schedule hereto.

3. For the purposes of the principal Ordinance courts having Interpreta- limited jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters shall be deemed to tion.

be superior courts.

Australia:-

SCHEDULE

Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales Northern Territory Victoria