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ARTICLE 4 METHOD AND EXTENT OF ENFORCEMENT

(1)

Where a judgment to which this Agreement applies

has been given by an original court in one Law District, a

judgment creditor may apply to the registering court in the

Law

district of the other Contracting Party at any time

within a period of six years after the date of the judgment

(or, where there have been proceedings by way of appeal

judgment, after the date of the last judgment

have the judgment

and on any such application the court applied

subject to such simple and rapid procedures as

against the

given in those

registered,

to shall,

proceedings)

to

the relevant law may prescribe, and to the other provisions

of this Agreement, order the judgment to be registered.

(2)

judgment

to

In addition to the sum of money payable under the

of the original court, including interest accrued

the date of registration, the judgment shall be

registered for the reasonable costs of and incidental to

registration, if any, including the costs of obtaining a

certified copy of the judgment from the original court.

(3)

If, on an application for the registration of a

judgment, it appears to the registering court that the

in respect of different matters and that some,

is

judgment

but not

all,

of the

provisions of the judgment are such