Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FOREIGN PROCEEDINGS (EXCESS OF JURISDICTION) ACT 1984 No. 3 of 1984 - SECT 19

19. (1) The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this
Act, prescribing matters -

   (a)  required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

   (b)  necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving
        effect to this Act, and in particular -

   (c)  making provision for and in relation to the service and execution of
        process of the Court in proceedings instituted under section 10 or 11
        in proceedings for the registration of judgments under section 12,
        including the manner in which and the extent to which the process of
        the Court, or notice of any such process, may be served out of the
        jurisdiction of the Court;

   (d)  making provision for and in relation to the proof by affidavit or
        otherwise of any matter relating to the registration of judgments
        under section 12;

   (e)  making provision for and in relation to the enforcement and execution
        of judgments of the Court given in proceedings instituted under this
        Act or of judgments registered under section 12; and

   (f)  making provision for and in relation to the determination of the rate
        of exchange applicable where, for the pruposes of the application of
        this Act, it is necessary to express in Australian currency an amount
        of foreign currency.

(2) Notwithstanding sub-sections 48 (1) and (2) of the Acts Interpretation 
Act 1901, regulations prescribing an authority for the purposes of the
definition of "foreign court" in sub-section 3 (1) of this Act shall take
effect from a date specified in the regulations, which may be a date earlier
than the date of notification of the regulations in the Gazette.