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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

(or,

District of the other Contracting Party at any time

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

where there have been proceedings by way of appeal

against the judgment, after the date of the last judgment

given in those proceedings) to have the judgment

registered, and on any such application the court applied

to shall, subject to such simple and rapid procedures as

the relevant law may prescribe, and to the other provisions

of this Agreement, order the judgment to be registered.

(2)

to

In addition to the sum of money payable under the

judgment 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.

court that the

(3)

If, on an application for the registration of a

judgment, it appears to the registering

judgment is in respect of different matters and that some,

but not all, of the provisions of the judgment are such

that if those provisions had been contained in separate

judgments

judgments could properly have been

registered,

those

the judgment may be registered in respect of

the latter but not in respect of any others.

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