BRITISH JUDGMENTS RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT ORDER - GIBRALTAR

BRITISH JUDGMENTS

RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT - GIBRALTAR

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 52.01

BRITISH JUDGMENTS RECIPROCAL

ENFORCEMENT ORDER - GIBRALTAR

27th July, 1925

PROCLAMATION VIII of 1925.

The title of this Order is British Judgments Reciprocal

Enforcement Order - Gibraltar.

(Article 2)

WHEREAS by article 12 of the Maintenance Orders (Facilities

for Enforcement) Ordinance, it is provided that where the Governor

in Council is satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made by

the Legislature of any part of His Majesty’s Dominions outside

these Islands for the enforcement, within that part, of maintenance

orders made by the Court of these Islands, the Governor may, by

Proclamation, extend this Ordinance to that part, and thereupon that

part shall become a part of His Majesty’s Dominions to which this

Ordinance extends;

WHEREAS by article 5(2) of the Reciprocal Enforcement of

Judgements Act, it is provided that the Governor in Council may,

by Proclamation, extend the application of the said Act to any part

of His Majesty’s Dominions outside the United Kingdom the

Legislature of which has made provision for the enforcement of

judgments obtained in the Superior Courts of Malta; and that on

any such Proclamation being made this Act shall extend

accordingly;

AND WHEREAS I am satisfied that by virtue of the Reciprocal

Enforcement of Judgements Ordinance, 1921, and by the

Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance, 1921,

the Legislature of Gibraltar has made such reciprocal provision as

aforesaid

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SIR WALTER NORRIS CONGREVE,

do declare and proclaim that the said Maintenance Orders

(Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance and the Reciprocal

Enforcement of Judgements Act shall apply and extend

respectively to maintenance orders made by the Courts of Gibraltar

and to the judgements obtained in the Superior Courts of Gibraltar.

*The Proclamation is reproduced in its original form. By virtue of the amendments,

made to the parent law, by Act LVIII of 1974, the power to extend the applicability of

the Act outside Malta is vested in the President of Malta.

The provisions of the British Judgements (Reciprocal

Enforcement) Act shall apply and extend to Gibraltar by virtue of

the Proclamation which is reproduced in the Schedule to this Order.