Section 40 Effect of registration of judgments of courts outside England and Wales.

Section five of the M1Debtors Act 1869, as amended by any subsequent enactment, and . . . F1, as so amended, shall have effect as if—

(a)

any judgment of the High Court of Northern Ireland or decreet of the Court of Session a certificate of which has been registered in the High Court under section one or section three of the M2Judgments Extension Act 1868; and

(b)

any judgment, as defined in Part II of the Administration of M3Justice Act 1920, which has been registered in the High Court under the said Part II; and

(c)

any judgment, as defined in the Inferior Courts Judgments M4Extension Act 1882, a certificate of which has been registered in the High Court or in F2the county court under that Act,

were a judgment of the High Court or, as the case may be, of the county court, and proceedings may be taken under F3the said Act of 1869 accordingly.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words repealed by Insolvency Act 1985 (c. 65, SIF 66), s. 235, Sch. 8 para. 11(a), Sch. 10 Pt. III
F2: Words in s. 40 substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 54; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)
F3: Words substituted by Insolvency Act 1985 (c. 65, SIF 66), s. 235, Sch. 8 para. 11(b)

Marginal citations

M1: 1869 c. 62.
M2: 1868 c. 54.
M3: 1920 c. 81.
M4: 1882 c. 31.