BRITISH JUDGMENTS RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT ORDER - TASMANIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES

BRITISH JUDGMENTS RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT -

TASMANIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 52.07

BRITISH JUDGMENTS RECIPROCAL

ENFORCEMENT ORDER - TASMANIA AND ITS

DEPENDENCIES

30th January, 1959

PROCLAMATION I of 1959.

The title of this Order is British Judgments Reciprocal

Enforcement Order - Tasmania and its Dependencies.

(Article 2)

WHEREAS by article 5(2) of the British Judgments (Reciprocal

Enforcement) Act, it is provided that the Governor may, by

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

Her Majesty’s Dominions outside the United Kingdom, the

Legislature of which has made provisions for 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 an Order in

Council of the 31st day of March, 1958, the State of Tasmania and

its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia has made such

reciprocal provisions as aforesaid

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ROBERT EDWARD LAYCOCK, Knight

Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St

George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath,

Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Governor-in-Chief

in and over the Island of Malta and its Dependencies, do hereby

declare and proclaim that with effect from the date hereof, the

aforesaid British Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act shall

apply and extend to judgments obtained in the Courts of the State

of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of

Australia.

*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 Tasmania and its

Dependencies by virtue of the Proclamation which is reproduced in

the Schedule to this Order.