FOREIGN JUDGMENTS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT) ACT 1954 (REPEALED) - SECT 12 12. (1) If it appears to the Governor-General that the treatment in respect of recognition and enforcement accorded by the courts of a country to judgments given in the Supreme Court is substantially less favourable than that accorded by the courts of the Territory to judgments of the superior courts of that country, the Governor-General may by Proclamation declare that this section applies in relation to that country.

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FOREIGN JUDGMENTS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT) ACT 1954 (REPEALED) - SECT 12

12. (1) If it appears to the Governor-General that the treatment in respect of recognition and enforcement accorded by the courts of a country to judgments given in the Supreme Court is substantially less favourable than that accorded by the courts of the Territory to judgments of the superior courts of that country, the Governor-General may by Proclamation declare that this section applies in relation to that country.

(2) Except so far as the Governor-General by Proclamation otherwise directs, no proceedings shall be entertained in a court in the Territory for the recovery of a sum alleged to be payable under a judgment given in a court of a country declared by Proclamation to be a country in relation to which this section applies.

Issue of certificates of judgments obtained in the Territory

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