Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933

Registration of Foreign Judgments

1Power to extend Part I of Act to foreign countries giving reciprocal treatment

2Application for, and effect of, registration of foreign judgment

3Rules of court

4Cases in which registered judgments must, or may, be set aside

5Powers of registering court on application to set aside registration

6Foreign judgments which can be registered not to be enforceable otherwise

7Power to apply Part I of Act to British dominions, protectorates and mandated territories

Miscellaneous and General

8General effect of certain foreign judgments

9Power to make foreign judgments unenforceable in United Kingdom if no reciprocity

10Issue of certificates of judgments obtained in the United Kingdom

11Interpretation

12Application to Scotland

13Application to Northern Ireland

Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933

1933 Chapter 13

An Act to make provision for the enforcement in the United Kingdom of judgments given in foreign countries which accord reciprocal treatment to judgments given in the United Kingdom, for facilitating the enforcement in foreign countries of judgments given in the United Kingdom, and for other purposes in connection with the matters aforesaid.

[13th April 1933.]

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—