Supreme Court Amendment Act 1986 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

SUPREME COURT AMENDMENT ACT

No. 22 of 1986

AN ACT to amend the Supreme Court Act 1935.

[Assented to 25 July 1986.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the

advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Supreme Court Amendment Act

1986.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on such day as is fixed by

proclamation.

No. 22] Supreme Court Amendment Act [1986

Section 146 inserted	"
3. After section 145 of the Supreme Court Act 1935* the following

section is inserted -

Enforcement of judgments of District Court

146. (1) A judgment creditor who is desirous of enforcing a judgment of the District Court in a country to which Part II of the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1963 applies may enter that judgment in the Court against a person.

(2) A judgment

(a)	entered under subsection (1); and
(b)	for which a certificate has been issued under section 14 of the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1963,

is deemed to be a judgment of the Supreme Court for the purpose of enforcing that judgment in a country to which Part II of the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1963 applies. ".

[*Reprinted as approved 12 May 1980 and amended by Acts Nos. 3, 7, 10, and 47 of 1982, 47 of 1983, 9, 72 and 102 of 1984 and 109 of 1985.]