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(1)On an application in that behalf duly made by any party against whom a registered judgment may be enforced, the registration of the judgment—
(a)shall be set aside if the registering court is satisfied—
(i)that the judgment is not a judgment to which this Part of this Act applies or was registered in contravention of the foregoing provisions of this Act; or
(ii)that the courts of the country of the original court had no jurisdiction in the circumstances of the case; or
(iii)that the judgment debtor, being the defendant in the proceedings in the original court, did not (notwithstanding that process may have been duly served on him in accordance with the law of the country of the original court) receive notice of those proceedings in sufficient time to enable him to defend the proceedings and did not appear; or
(iv)that the judgment was obtained by fraud; or
(v)that the enforcement of the judgment would be contrary to public policy in the country of the registering court; or
(vi)that the rights under the judgment are not vested in the person by whom the application for registration was made;
(b)may be set aside if the registering court is satisfied that the matter in dispute in the proceedings in the original court had previously to the date of the judgment in the original court been the subject of a final and conclusive judgment by a court having jurisdiction in the matter.
(2)For the purposes of this section the courts of the country of the original court shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, be deemed to have had jurisdiction—
(a)in the case of a judgment given in an action in personam—
(i)if the judgment debtor, being a defendant in the original court, submitted to the jurisdiction of that court by voluntarily appearing in the proceedings F1. . .; or
(ii)if the judgment debtor was plaintiff in, or counter-claimed in, the proceedings in the original court; or
(iii)if the judgment debtor, being a defendant in the original court, had before the commencement of the proceedings agreed, in respect of the subject matter of the proceedings, to submit to the jurisdiction of that court or of the courts of the country of that court; or
(iv)if the judgment debtor, being a defendant in the original court, was at the time when the proceedings were instituted resident in, or being a body corporate had its principal place of business in, the country of that court; or
(v)if the judgment debtor, being a defendant in the original court, had an office or place of business in the country of that court and the proceedings in that court were in respect of a transaction effected through or at that office or place;
(b)in the case of a judgment given in an action of which the subject matter was immovable property or in an action in rem of which the subject matter was movable property, if the property in question was at the time of the proceedings in the original court situate in the country of that court;
(c)in the case of a judgment given in an action other than any such action as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of this subsection, if the jurisdiction of the original court is recognised by the law of the registering court.
(3)Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of this section, the courts of the country of the original court shall not be deemed to have had jurisdiction—
(a)if the subject matter of the proceedings was immovable property outside the country of the original court; or
F2(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(c)if the judgment debtor, being a defendant in the original proceedings, was a person who under the rules of public international law was entitled to immunity from the jurisdiction of the courts of the country of the original court and did not submit to the jurisdiction of that court.
Textual Amendments
F1Words repealed (with saving) by Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c. 27, SIF 45:3), ss. 35(1), 53, Sch. 13 Pt. II para. 9(2), Sch. 14
F2S. 4(3)(b) repealed (with saving) by Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c. 27, SIF 45:3), ss. 35(1), 53, Sch. 13 Pt. II para. 8(2), Sch. 14
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 4 extended by Isle of Man Act 1979 (c. 58, SIF 29:4), s. 4
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