COURT JUDGMENTS
RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT EXTENSION OF 1934 ACT [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Wednesday The first extension of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgment Act, 1934, to foreign countries is made in regulations issued with to-night's Gazette. Countries with which New. Zealand now has provision for the reciprocal registering of judgments as a result of the extension are France and Belgium. . The Act when passed in 1934 applied to Britain, but contained a proviso that it could bo extended to any foreign country following the signing of the requisite convention. The general effect of the extended Act is that it entitles an applicant, without ai'ing- to register a judgment in Courts in Britain, France and Belgium, which will enforce it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23227, 22 December 1938, Page 12
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