FOREIGN JUDGMENTS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT) ACT

Section 9: Application of Part I of Act to Her Majesty's dominions other than Nigeria

1961Section 9 of 13Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1)
This Part of this Act shall apply to any part of the Commonwealth other than Nigeria and to judgments obtained in the courts thereof as it applies to foreign countries and to judgment obtained in the courts of foreign countries, and the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Ordinance shall cease to have effect except in relation to those parts of Her Majesty's dominions other than Nigeria to which it extended at the date of commencement of this Act.
[L.N. 139 of 1965. Cap. 175 of 1958.]
(2) If an order is made under section 3 of this Act extending Part I of this Act to any part of Her Majesty's dominions to which the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Ordinance extended as aforesaid, the said Act shall cease to have effect in relation to that part of Her Majesty's dominions, except as regards judgments obtained before the coming into operation of the order and registered in accordance therewith.
(3) In this section, the expression "any part of the Commonwealth other than Nigeria" shall be deemed to include any British protectorate or protected State and any territory in respect of which a mandate or trusteeship under the League of Nations or United Nations has been accepted by the President.

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Section 9, FOREIGN JUDGMENTS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT) ACT (1961).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/foreign-judgments-reciprocal-enforcement-act/section/9/