Version No. 023
Foreign Judgments Act 1962
No. 6916 of 1962
Version as at
30 August 2012
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
PART I—PRELIMINARY
1Short title and commencement
2Repeal and savings
3Definitions
PART II—RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS
4Application of this Part of Act
5Application for, and effect of, registration of judgment
6Rules of Court
7Cases in which registered judgments must, or may be set aside
8Powers of Supreme Court on application to set aside
registration9Judgments which can be registered under this Act not to be enforceable otherwise
PART III—MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL
10Judgments given by superior Courts outside Victoria
11Power to make judgments unenforceable in Victoria if no reciprocity
12Issue of certificates of judgments obtained in Victoria
13Savings
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ENDNOTES
1. General Information
2. Table of Amendments
3. Explanatory Details
Version No. 023
Foreign Judgments Act 1962
No. 6916 of 1962
Version as at
30 August 2012
An Act to make Provision for the Enforcement in Victoria of Judgments given in the United Kingdom or in other Countries (whether Commonwealth Countries or not) which accord Reciprocal Treatment to Judgments given in Victoria, for Facilitating the Enforcement in other Countries of Judgments given in Victoria, and for other purposes.
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 Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say):
PART I—PRELIMINARY
1Short title and commencement
(1)This Act may be cited as the Foreign Judgments Act 1962.
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2Repeal and savings
(1)Division 11 of Part VIII of the Supreme Court Act 1958 is hereby repealed.
(2)Every Proclamation issued under section one hundred and sixty-seven of that Act, and in force immediately before the passing of this Act, shall continue in force as if it were an Order to the same effect made under section four of this Act, and may be varied or revoked in accordance with the provisions of subsection (5) of section four of this Act.
(3)Any judgment registered in the Supreme Court under the repealed Division before the passing of this Act shall be deemed to have been registered in that Court under Part II of this Act and anything done in relation thereto under the repealed Division or any Rules of Court or other provisions applicable to that Division shall be deemed to have been done under Part II or the corresponding Rules of Court or other provisions applicable to Part II and Part II shall have operation and effect in relation thereto accordingly.
3Definitions
(1)In this Act, unless inconsistent with the context or subject-matter—
appealincludes any proceedings by way of discharging or setting aside a judgment or an application for a new trial or a stay of execution;
Commonwealth country means a country that is a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and includes every territory for whose international relations the Government of…