Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Order 1940

Reprint
as at 11 October 2013

Coat of Arms of New Zealand

Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Order 1940

(SR 1940/88)

Galway, Governor-General

Order in Council

At the Government House at Wellington this 14th day of May 1940

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

This order is administered by the Ministry of Justice.

Pursuant to the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act 1934, His Excellency the Governor-General, being satisfied in respect of the matters referred to in section 3 of that Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby order as follows:

Order

1

  • This order may be cited as the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Order 1940.

2

  • The Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Order 1939 (SR 1939/31) and the several proclamations referred to in the Schedule of that order are hereby revoked.

3

  • It is hereby directed that Part 1 of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act 1934 shall extend to those parts of His Majesty's dominions (including territories under His Majesty's protection) named in the first column of the Schedule.

4

  • It is hereby directed that the respective courts specified in the second column of the Schedule shall, for the purposes of Part 1 of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act 1934, be deemed superior courts of the respective parts of His Majesty's dominions named in the first column of the Schedule.

Schedule

First column
Part of His Majesty's dominions		Second column
Superior court
Oceana
British Solomon Islands ProtectorateThe High Commissioner's Court for the Western Pacific
Colony of FijiThe Supreme Court of Fiji
Gilbert and Ellice Islands ColonyThe High Commissioner's Court for the Western Pacific
Africa
BasutolandThe High Court of Basutoland
Bechuanaland ProtectorateThe High Court of the Bechuanaland Protectorate
SwazilandThe High Court of Swaziland

  • Schedule: amended, on 11 October 2013, by section 10(1) of the Trans-Tasman Proceedings Act 2010 (2010 No 108).

  • Schedule: amended, on 29 August 1962, by clause 2 of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Order 1940, Amendment No 2 (SR 1962/156).

  • Schedule: amended, on 6 February 1951, by clause 4 of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Order 1951 (SR 1951/12).

C A Jeffery,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 23 May 1940.

Reprints notes
1 General

  • This is a reprint of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Order 1940 that incorporates all the amendments to that order as at the date of the last amendment to it.

2 Legal status

  • Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment. Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, will have the status of an official version once issued by the Chief Parliamentary Counsel under section 17(1) of that Act.

3 Editorial and format changes
4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint

  • Trans-Tasman Proceedings Act 2010 (2010 No 108): section 10(1)

    Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Order 1940, Amendment No 2 (SR 1962/156): clause 2

    Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Order 1951 (SR 1951/12): clause 4