S.L. 52.5 чл. 2Extension of applicability. Cap. 52.

The provisions of the British Judgements (Reciprocal

Enforcement) Act shall apply and extend to the State of Victoria by virtue of the Proclamation which is reproduced in the Schedule to this Order.

* SCHEDULE (Article 2) WHEREAS it is provided, by article 5(2) of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgements Act, that where the Governor in Council is satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made by the Legislature of any part of His Majesty’s Dominions outside the United Kingdom for the enforcement within that part of His Majesty’s Dominions of judgments obtained in the Island of Malta and its Dependencies, the Governor may, by Proclamation, declare that such Act shall extend to judgments obtained in a Superior Court in that part of His Majesty’s Dominions in the like manner as it extends to judgments obtained in a Superior Court in the United Kingdom, and on any such Proclamation being made the said Act shall extend accordingly; AND WHEREAS I am satisfied that the Legislature of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia by virtue of the Judgments (Reciprocity) Acts, 1925, (Act No. 3395 dated 21st September, 1925) has made such reciprocal provisions as aforesaid; AND WHEREAS by Proclamation issued at Melbourne on the eighth day of November, 1926, His Excellency the Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies, in the Commonwealth of Australia, under the provisions of the said Judgements (Reciprocity) Act, 1925, has declared Malta and its Dependencies to be a reciprocating State for the purposes of the Judgements (Reciprocity) Acts and declared that the said Acts shall extend and apply to all parts of Malta and its Dependencies: NOW, THEREFORE, I, SIR WALTER NORRIS CONGREVE, do hereby proclaim that the said Reciprocal Enforcement of

*The Proclamation is reproduced in its original form. By virtue of the amendments, made to the parent law, by Act LVIII of 1974, the power to extend the applicability of the Act outside Malta is vested in the President of Malta. Judgements Act shall apply and extend to judgments obtained in the Superior Courts of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies, in the Commonwealth of Australia.