1. This Order may be cited as the Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (the Netherlands) Order 1969 and shall come into operation on 21st September 1969.
2. Part I of the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933 shall extend to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
3. The following courts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands shall be deemed superior courts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the purposes of Part I of the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933 , that is to say:—
The Hoge Raad der Nederlanden;
The gerechtshoven;
The arrondissementsrechtbanken.
4. No security for costs shall be required to be given by any person making application for the registration of a judgment of a superior court of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
5. A judgment of a superior court of the Kingdom of the Netherlands shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be deemed to be capable of execution in the Kingdom of the Netherlands if a certified copy of the judgment is produced bearing the seal of the court and the executory formula “in naam der Koningin”.
6. The rate of interest due under the law of the Kingdom of the Netherlands upon the sum in respect of which a judgment of a superior court of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is given shall be deemed to be that specified in the judgment or any certificate of the original court accompanying the judgment and, if no rate is so specified, no interest shall be deemed to be due thereon under the law of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
7. A translation of the judgment of a superior court of the Kingdom of the Netherlands or of any other document accompanying an application for registration of such a judgment shall, if certified by a sworn translator or by a diplomatic or consular officer of either the United Kingdom or the Kingdom of the Netherlands, be accepted without further authentication.
W. G. Agnew