BRITISH JUDGMENTS RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT ORDER - VICTORIA

BRITISH JUDGMENTS

RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT - VICTORIA

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 52.05

BRITISH JUDGMENTS RECIPROCAL

ENFORCEMENT ORDER - VICTORIA

16th February, 1927

PROCLAMATION II of 1927.

The title of this Order is British Judgments Reciprocal

Enforcement Order - Victoria.

(Article 2)

WHEREAS it is provided, by article 5(2) of the Reciprocal

Enforcement of Judgements Act, 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 the

United Kingdom for the enforcement within that part of His

Majesty’s Dominions of judgments obtained in the Island of Malta

and its Dependencies, the Governor may, by Proclamation, declare

that such Act shall extend to judgments obtained in a Superior

Court in that part of His Majesty’s Dominions in the like manner as

it extends to judgments obtained in a Superior Court in the United

Kingdom, and on any such Proclamation being made the said Act

shall extend accordingly;

AND WHEREAS I am satisfied that the Legislature of the State

of Victoria and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia

by virtue of the Judgments (Reciprocity) Acts, 1925, (Act No. 3395

dated 21st September, 1925) has made such reciprocal provisions

as aforesaid;

AND WHEREAS by Proclamation issued at Melbourne on the

eighth day of November, 1926, His Excellency the Governor of the

State of Victoria and its Dependencies, in the Commonwealth of

Australia, under the provisions of the said Judgements

(Reciprocity) Act, 1925, has declared Malta and its Dependencies

to be a reciprocating State for the purposes of the Judgements

(Reciprocity) Acts and declared that the said Acts shall extend and

apply to all parts of Malta and its Dependencies

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SIR WALTER NORRIS CONGREVE,

do hereby proclaim that the said Reciprocal Enforcement of

*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 - VICTORIA

Judgements Act shall apply and extend to judgments obtained in

the Superior Courts of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies,

in the Commonwealth of Australia.

The provisions of the British Judgements (Reciprocal

Enforcement) Act shall apply and extend to the State of Victoria by

virtue of the Proclamation which is reproduced in the Schedule to

this Order.