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FOREIGN JUDGMENTS ACT 1991 - SECT 17 Rules of Court

FOREIGN JUDGMENTS ACT 1991 - SECT 17

Rules of Court

  (1)   The power of an authority to make rules regulating the practice and procedure of a superior court extends to making any rules, not inconsistent with this Act or with any regulations made under this Act, prescribing all matters necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act, including the following:

  (a)   making provision with respect to the giving of security for costs by a person applying for registration of a judgment;

  (b)   prescribing the matters to be proved on an application for the registration of a judgment and for regulating the mode of proving those matters;

  (c)   providing for the service on the judgment debtor of notice of the registration of a judgment;

  (d)   making provision with respect to the extension of the period within which an application may be made to have the registration of a judgment set aside;

  (e)   relating to the method of determining a question arising under this Act as to:

  (i)   whether a judgment given in a country in relation to which this Part extends can be enforced in the country of the original court; or

  (ii)   what interest is payable under a judgment under the law of the original court.

  (2)   This section does not affect any power to make rules under any other law.