Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965

4 Registration of foreign judgments.U.K.

(1)Subject to the next following subsection, Part I of the M1Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933 (in this section referred to as “the Act of 1933”) shall apply, whether or not it would otherwise have so applied, to any judgment which—

(a)has been given in any such action as is referred to in paragraph 1 of article 31 in the Schedule to this Act, and

(b)has been so given by any court or tribunal of a territory in respect of which one of the High Contracting Parties, other than the United Kingdom, is a party to the Convention, and

(c)has become enforceable in that territory.

(2)In the application of Part I of the Act of 1933 in relation to any such judgment as is referred to in the preceding subsection, section 4 of that Act shall have effect with the omission of subsections (2) and(3).

(3)The registration, in accordance with Part I of the Act of 1933, of any such judgment as is referred to in subsection (1) of this section shall constitute, in relation to that judgment, compliance with the formalities for the purposes of paragraph 3 of article 31 in the Schedule to this Act.

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