S.L. 52.3 Art. 2Extension of applicability. Cap. 52.

The provisions of the British Judgements (Reciprocal

Enforcement) Act shall apply and extend to Bermuda by virtue of the Proclamation which is reproduced in the Schedule to this Order.

* SCHEDULE (Article 2)

WHEREAS by article 5(2) of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgements Act, it is provided that where the Governor in Council is satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made by the Legislature of any part of His Majesty’s Dominions outside the United Kingdom for the enforcement within that part of His Majesty’s Dominions of judgements obtained in the Island of Malta and its Dependencies, His Excellency may, by Proclamation, declare that the said Act shall extend to judgments obtained in a Supreme Court in such part; AND WHEREAS I am satisfied that by virtue of the Judgements Extension Act, 1923 (Bermuda Act No. 9 of 1923) and of an Order in Council made by the Governor of Bermuda on the fifteenth day of April, 1925, the Legislature of Bermuda or Somers Islands has made such reciprocal provisions: NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM CHARLES FLEMING ROBERTSON, do declare and proclaim that the said Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgements Act shall apply and extend to judgments obtained in the Supreme Court of Bermuda.

*The Proclamation is reproduced in its original form. By virtue of the amendments, made to the parent law, by Act LVIII of 1974, the power to extend the applicability of the Act outside Malta is vested in the President of Malta.