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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reciprocal-enforcement-of-foreign-judgments-australia-order-1994/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1901",
  "legislation_title": "The Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Australia) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reciprocal-enforcement-of-foreign-judgments-australia-order-1994",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "It is hereby declared that—\n(a) the provisions contained in articles 5 and 7 of this Order are necessary for giving effect to the Agreement scheduled hereto in relation to matters with respect to which there is power to make rules of court for the purposes of Part I of the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933; and\n(b) Article 3 of the Agreement scheduled hereto is a provision of a convention whereby the United Kingdom assumes an obligation of the kind provided for in article 59 of the Convention on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, signed at Brussels on 27th September 1968.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Convention is set out in Schedule 1 to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
}