The Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Canada) Order 1987

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order replaces the Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Canada) Order 1986 and provides for the extension of Part I of the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933 to the judgments of designated courts of Canada, makes provision regarding the registration and enforcement of such judgments and makes a declaration under section 9(2) of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 that Article IX of the Convention set out in the Schedule is a provision whereby the United Kingdom assumed an obligation of a kind provided for in Article 59 of the convention on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters signed at Brussels on 27th September 1968.

Relevant judgments given after 31st December 1986 will be enforced in the United Kingdom upon registration in the High Court, the Court of Session or the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland.