The Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders (Hague Convention Countries) Order 1993

Order, etc. made in Hague Convention country need not be proved.

15.  For the purposes of this Part of this Act, unless the contrary is shown–

(a) any order made by a court in a Hague Convention country purporting to bear the seal of that court or to be signed by any person in his capacity as a judge or officer of the court, shall be deemed without further proof to have been duly sealed or, as the case may be, to have been signed by that person;

(b) the person by whom the order was signed shall be deemed without further proof to have been a judge or officer, as the case may be, of that court when he signed it and, in the case of an officer, to have been authorised to sign it; and

(c) a document purporting to be a certified copy of an order made by a court in a Hague Convention country shall be deemed without further proof to be such a copy.