BRITISH JUDGMENTS RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT ORDER - NEW SOUTH WALES

BRITISH JUDGMENTS

RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT - NEW SOUTH WALES

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 52.02

BRITISH JUDGMENTS RECIPROCAL

ENFORCEMENT ORDER - NEW SOUTH WALES

23rd October, 1925

PROCLAMATION XII of 1925.

The title of this Order is British Judgments Reciprocal

Enforcement Order - New South Wales.

(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 Courts 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, to his satisfaction, made reciprocal

provisions for the enforcement of judgments obtained in the

Superior Courts of Malta; and that on any such Proclamation being

made the application of the last mentioned Act shall extend

accordingly;

AND WHEREAS I am satisfied that by virtue of the

Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act, 1923, (New

South Wales Act No. 4 of 1923) and of the Administration of

Justice Act, 1924, (New South Wales Act No. 42 of 1924) and of

Proclamations duly made thereunder by His Excellency the

Governor of New South Wales, the Legislature of New South

Wales has made such reciprocal provisions as aforesaid

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM CHARLES FLEMING

ROBERTSON, do declare and proclaim that the said Maintenance

*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.

BRITISH JUDGMENTS

RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT - NEW SOUTH WALES

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 New

South Wales and to the judgements obtained in the Supreme Court

of New South Wales.

The provisions of the British Judgements (Reciprocal

Enforcement) Act shall apply and extend to New South Wales by

virtue of the Proclamation which is reproduced in the Schedule to

this Order.