Maintenance Orders Reciprocal Enforcement Act · s 15

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s 15Order etc. made abroad

(1)

For the purpose of this Act, unless the contrary is shown -

(a)

any order made by a court in a reciprocating country purporting to bear the seal of that court or to be signed by any person in his capacity as a judge, magistrate or officer of the court, is deemed without further proof to have been duly sealed or, as the case may be, to have been signed by that person;

(3)

the person by whom the order was signed is deemed without further proof to have been a judge, magistrate or officer of that court when he signed it; and

(c)

a document purporting to be a certified copy of an order made by a court in a reciprocating country is deemed without further proof to be such a copy.