The Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Norway) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2020
| Jurisdiction | Scotland |
| Citation | SSI 2020/371 |
2020 No. 371
Judgments
The Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Norway) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2020
Made 11th November 2020
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 13th November 2020
Coming into force in accordance with article 1
At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 11th day of November 2020
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1 of the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 19331, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order as follows:
Citation, commencement and extent
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Norway) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2020.
(2) This Order comes into force on the later of—
(a)
(a) IP completion day,
(b)
(b) the day on which, and immediately after, the notification requirements are fulfilled.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), the notification requirements are fulfilled on the day when the Government of the United Kingdom and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway notify each other in accordance with—
(a)
(a) Article 3(1) of the Agreement that their respective internal procedures for bringing the Agreement into force have been completed, or if earlier,
(b)
(b) Article 3(3) of the Agreement that they agree to provisionally apply the Agreement,
but if in either case the notifications are not given on the same day, the notification requirements are fulfilled on the day when the later of those notifications is given.
(4) The Scottish Ministers must give notice in the Edinburgh Gazette of the date on which the Order comes into force pursuant to paragraph (2).
(5) For the purposes of this article, “the Agreement” means the Agreement on the continued application and amendment of the Convention between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway providing for the reciprocal recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil matters signed at London on 12 June 1961, signed at Oslo on 13th October 2020, as set out in the schedule of this Order.
(6) This Order extends to Scotland only.
Amendment of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Norway) Order, 1962
2.—(1) The Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Norway) Order, 19622is amended as follows.
(2) In article 2—
(a)
(a) for “superior” substitute “recognised”,
(b)
(b) for “County Courts” substitute “District Courts”, and
(c)
(c) for “City Courts” substitute “Conciliation Boards”.
(3) In each of the following, for “superior” substitute “recognised”—
(a)
(a) article 3,
(b)
(b) article 5, and
(c)
(c) article 6.
(4) For article 4 substitute—
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