Statutory Rules 1992   No. 3211
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Foreign Judgments Regulations
I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and being satisfied, in respect of New Zealand, of the matters specified in subsections 5 (1) and (3) of the Foreign Judgments Act 1991, make the following Regulations under the Act.
	Dated 9 October 1992.

	BILL HAYDEN
	Governor-General
	By His Excellency’s Command,

MICHAEL DUFFY
Attorney-General
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Citation
	1.	These Regulations may be cited as the Foreign Judgments  Regulations.
[NOTE:  These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s.48.]
Interpretation
	2.	In these Regulations:
“the Act” means the Foreign Judgments Act 1991.
Extension of Part 2 of the Act
	3.	Part 2 of the Act extends to each country specified in column 2 of the Schedule.
Specified superior courts
	4.	For the purposes of the Act, the courts specified in column 3 of an item in the Schedule are taken to be superior courts of the country specified in column 2 of that item.
Specified inferior courts
	5.	Part 2 of the Act extends in relation to each District Court of New Zealand.
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	SCHEDULE	Regulations 3 and 4

SUPERIOR COURTS

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	
Item No.	Country	Courts	
1	New Zealand	Court of Appeal 
High Court	

NOTE
1.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 16 October 1992.