# Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972, Section 15: Order, etc. made abroad need not be proved.


For the purposes of this Part of this Act, unless the contrary is shown—
(a) any order made by a court in a reciprocating country purporting to bear the seal of that court or to be signed by any person in his capacity as a judge, magistrate or officer of the court, shall be deemed without further proof to have been duly sealed or, as the case may be, to have been signed by that person;
(b) the person by whom the order was signed shall be deemed without further proof to have been a judge, magistrate or officer, as the case may be, of that court when he signed it and, in the case of an officer, to have been authorised to sign it; and
(c) a document purporting to be a certified copy of an order made by a court in a reciprocating country shall be deemed without further proof to be such a copy.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/18/section/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/maintenance-orders-reciprocal-enforcement-act-1972/section-15
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