BRITISH JUDGMENTS RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT UNITED KINGDOM [ S.L.52.06 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 52.06 BRITISH JUDGMENTS RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT ORDER - UNITED KINGDOM 14th April, 1931 PROCLAMATION XII of
- The title of this Order is British Judgments Reciprocal Enforcement Order - United Kingdom. Title.
- The provisions of the British Judgements (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act shall apply and extend to the United Kingdom by virtue of the Proclamation which is reproduced in the Schedule to this Order. Extension of applicability. Cap.
- SCHEDULE * (Article 2) WHEREAS it is provided, by article 5
(1)of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgements Act that the provisions of that Act shall, as regards its applicability to judgments obtained by a Court in the United Kingdom, come into force on the day on which there shall be published by Proclamation in the Government Gazette the Order of His Majesty in Council granting reciprocity for the enforcement in the United Kingdom of judgments obtained in these Islands; AND WHEREAS under date the 27th day of November, 1930, an Order has been made by His Majesty in Council extending Part II of the Administration of Justice Act, 1920, to Malta: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY CHARLES LUKE, do hereby order that the said Order in Council be published as a Schedule to this Proclamation for the purposes of article 5
(1)of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgements Act abovequoted. THE SCHEDULE AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE The 27th day of November, 1930 Present, The King’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council WHEREAS by Part II of the Administration of Justice Act 1920, provision has been made for the 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. 1 2 [ S.L.52.06 BRITISH JUDGMENTS RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT UNITED KINGDOM judgments in the United Kingdom and in other parts of His Majesty’s dominions; AND WHEREAS by the said Act it is, amongst other things, provided that where His Majesty 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 dominions of judgments obtained in the High Court in England, the Court of Session in Scotland and the High Court in Ireland, His Majesty may by Order in Council declare that the said part of that Act shall extend to that part of His dominions and that on any such order being made the said part of that Act shall extend accordingly; AND WHEREAS on the 6th day of December, 1922, the Irish Free State was established under the provisions of an Act of Parliament shortly entitled the Irish Free State Constitution Act, 1922 (Session 2); AND WHEREAS His Majesty is satisfied that the Legislature of the part of His Majesty’s dominions outside the United Kingdom hereinafter mentioned has made reciprocal provisions for the enforcement within that part of judgments obtained in the High Court in England, the Court of Session in Scotland and the High Court in Ireland: NOW, THEREFORE, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers by the above-recited Act in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered as follows: 1. Part II of the Administration of Justice Act, 1920, shall extend to Malta. 2. Nothing in this Order shall affect the registration or enforcement in the Irish Free State of any judgment in pursuance of Part II of the said Act. AND the Right Honourable Lord Passfield, one of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.