The Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Canada) (Amendment) Order 1987

Made: 18th December 1987

Coming into force: 1st January 1988

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 18th day of December 1987 Present, The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 1 of the said Act and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1

This Order shall come into force on 1st January 1988 and may be cited as the Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Canada) (Amendment) Order 1987.

2

The Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Canada) Order 1987[^f00003] shall be amended by adding at the end of article 3 (which names the Canadian courts, including the courts of Provinces, which are to be recognised courts for the purposes of Part I of the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933) the words “or the Yukon Territory”.

SCHEDULE — Canadian declaration extending to the Yukon Territory the Convention between Canada and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Providing for the Reciprocal Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters

Pursuant to Article XII, the Government of Canada declares that in addition to the provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario, the Convention shall extend to the Yukon Territory. An application in the Yukon Territory for the registration of a judgment given by a court of the United Kingdom may be made in the Supreme Court of the Yukon Territory.

Signed

G.I. de Deney — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends article 3 of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Canada) Order 1987 so as to include the courts of the Yukon Territory as recognized courts.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: A copy of the Convention is set out in the Schedule to S.I. 1987/468.

[^f00002]: 1933 c. 13 (as extended by S.I. 1933/1073 and amended by section 35(9) of and Schedule 10 to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c. 27).

[^f00003]: S.I. 1987/468.