FOREIGN JUDGMENTS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT) ACT

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FOREIGN JUDGMENTS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT) ACT

CHAPTER F35 LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, L.F.N. 2004

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS   

1.     Short title.

2.     Interpretation.

Part 1: Registration of Foreign Judgments

3.     3. Power to extend Part I of Act to countries giving reciprocal treatment

4.     Registration and application of judgments for enforcement in foreign countries.      

5.     Rules of court.           

6.     Cases in which registered judgments must or may be set aside.

7.     Power of registering court on application to set aside registration.   

8.     Foreign judgments which can be registered not to be enforceable otherwise.

9.     Application of Part I of Act to Her Majesty’s dominions other than Nigeria

10.    Provisions respecting certain existing judgments.  

11.    General effect of certain foreign judgments.

12.    Power to make foreign judgments unenforceable in Nigeria if no reciprocity.

13.    Issue of certificates of judgments obtained in Nigeria.

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FOREIGN JUDGMENTS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT) ACT

An Act to make provision for the enforcement of judgments in Nigeria given in foreign countries, which accord reciprocal treatment to judgments given in Nigeria. It is for facilitating the enforcement in foreign countries of judgments given in Nigeria, and for other purposes in connection with the matters aforementioned.

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[Commencement]                               [1st day of February 1961]

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