{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1956/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1956/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/46",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Justice Act 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1956",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Effect of registration of judgments of courts outside England and Wales.",
  "text": "Section five of the Debtors Act 1869, as amended by any subsequent enactment, and . . . , as so amended, shall have effect as if—\n(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 Judgments Extension Act 1868; and\n(b) any judgment, as defined in Part II of the Administration of Justice Act 1920, which has been registered in the High Court under the said Part II; and\n(c) any judgment, as defined in the Inferior Courts Judgments Extension Act 1882, a certificate of which has been registered in the High Court or in the county court under that Act,\nwere a judgment of the High Court or, as the case may be, of the county court, and proceedings may be taken under the said Act of 1869 accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Insolvency Act 1985 (c. 65, SIF 66), s. 235, Sch. 8 para. 11(a), Sch. 10 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Insolvency Act 1985 (c. 65, SIF 66), s. 235, Sch. 8 para. 11(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1869 c. 62."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1868 c. 54."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1920 c. 81."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1882 c. 31."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/46/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:14:38.801549+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}