Paragraph 4 The High Court and County Courts Jurisdiction Order 1991 (S.I. No. 1991/724)I1
United Kingdom
After article 6F of the High Court and County Courts Jurisdiction Order 1991f1, insert—
“6G.(1)In this article—
(a)“the Judgments Regulation” means Regulation (EU) No. 1215/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (recast), as amended from time to time and as applied by virtue of the Agreement made on 19 October 2005 between the European Community and the Kingdom of Denmark on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (OJ No L 299, 16.11.2005, p62; OJ No L79, 21.3.2013, p4);
(b)“adaptation order” means an order for the adaptation of a legal remedy which is contained in a foreign judgment but is unknown under the law of England and Wales pursuant to article 54 of the Judgments Regulation.
(2)An application for an adaptation order or a challenge under article 54(2) of the Judgments Regulation to the adaptation of any measure without an adaptation order must be made to the High Court.”
Annotations
Commencement
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Sch. 4 para. 4 in force at 10.1.2015, see reg. 1(1)
Footnotes
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Article 6F was inserted by S.I. 2014/821, article 2(1) and (8).