BRITISH JUDGMENTS RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT - 
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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 52.04
BRITISH JUDGMENTS RECIPROCAL 
ENFORCEMENT ORDER - WESTERN AUSTRALIA 
23rd April, 1926
PROCLAMATION III of 1926.
Title. 
Enforcement Order - Western Australia.
Extension of 
applicability.
Cap. 52.
2. The provisions of the British Judgements (Reciprocal
Enforcement) Act shall apply and extend to Western Australia by
virtue of the Proclamation which is reproduced in the Schedule to
this Order.
SCHEDULE  *
(Article 2)
WHEREAS it is provided, by article 12 of the Maintenance
Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance, 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 these Islands for the enforcement, within that
part, of maintenance orders made by the Court of these Islands, the
Governor may, by Proclamation, extend this Ordinance to that part,
and thereupon that part shall become a part of His Majesty’s
Dominions to which this Ordinance extends;
AND WHEREAS it is provided by article 5(2) of the Reciprocal
Enforcement of Judgements Act, 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 judgments
obtained in the Island of Malta and its Dependencies, the Governor
may, by Proclamation, declare that this Act shall extend to
judgments obtained in a Superior Court in that part of His
Majesty’s Dominions in the like manner as it extends to judgments
obtained in a Superior Court in the United Kingdom, and on and
such Proclamation being made this Act shall extend accordingly;
AND WHEREAS I am satisfied that by virtue of an Order in
Council, made at Perth on the 6th day of January 1926 by His
Excellency the Governor of the State of Western Australia,
reciprocal provisions have been made for the enforcement, within
the State of Western Australia, of maintenance orders made by the
Courts of these Islands; and, further, that by an Order in Council
made at Perth on the 28th day of January, 1925, by His Excellency
the Governor of the State of Western Australia, it has been declared
*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.
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that the provisions of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments
Act, 1921, shall extend to Malta:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, SIR WALTER NORRIS CONGREVE,
do proclaim that the said Maintenance Orders (Facilities for
Enforcement) Ordinance and the said Reciprocal Enforcement of
Judgements Act shall apply and extend to maintenance orders made
by the Courts, and to the judgements obtained in the Supreme
Courts, of the State of Western Australia. 
