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No, 6. A BILL To render Judgments, which have been obtained in the Supreme Court of any of the other Australian Colonies, effectual in [ Tasmania]. BE it enacted, &c. : — 1. The word "judgment" shall include any judgment, decree, rule or order at law or in equity of interpretation, the Supreme Court of any of the Australian Colonies, other than [ Tasmania], for the payment of money. 2. Where judgment shall hereafter be obtained in the Supreme Court of any Australian Colony othei than [Tasmania], the registrar of the Supreme Court of [Tasmania] shall on the production to him of a certificate of such judgment in the form or to the effect in the Schedule purporting to be signed by the proper officer of the Court where such judgment has been obtained, register such certificate in a register to be kept in the Supreme Court of [ Tasmania], and to be called " The Register for Australian Judgments." 3. The certificate shall from the date of such registration be of the same force and effect, and all proceedings may be had and taken on such certificate, as if the judgment of which it is a certificate had been a judgment originally obtained on the date of such registration in the Supreme Court of [Tasmania], and all the reasonable costs and charges attendant upon obtaining and registering such certificate shall be recovered in like manner as if the same were part of the original judgment. 4. No certificate of any such judgment shall be registered as aforesaid more than twelve months after the date of such, judgment, unless application shall have been first made to and leave obtained from the Supreme Court of [Tasmania]. 5. The Supreme Court of [ Tasmania] shall have and exercise the same control and jurisdiction ovei any judgment and over any certificate of such judgment registered under this Act as it now has anc exercises over any of its own judgments, but in so far only as relates to execution under this Act. 6. It shall not be necessary for any person resident in any of the other Australian Colonies in anj proceeding had and taken on such certificate to find security for costs in respect of such residence, unless on special grounds, a Judge or the Court shall otherwise order. 7. In any action brought on any judgment which might be registered under this Act the part) bringing such action shall not recover or be entitled to any costs or expenses of suit, unless the Supreme Court or a Judge thereof shall otherwise order. 8. The Judges of the Supreme Court may make rules and orders to regulate the practice to bt observed in the execution of this Act or in any matter relating thereto, including the scale of fees to be charged. 9. lv citing this Act it shall be sufficient to use the expression " The Intercolonial Judgments Ac\ 1878."

Certificate of judgment obtained in another colony may be registered in [Tasmania],

On registration, certificate to have effect of judgment in [Tasmania],

Certificate to be registered within twelve months after judgment. Court to have control over certificate so registered.

No security for costs where person registering certiiicate resides out of {Tasmania]. No costs in action on judgments.

Judges to make rules. Short title.

SCHEDULE. I, certify that [insert name of person entitled to judgment, tvith his title, trade, or profession, and usual or last known place of abode] on the day of 18 , obtained judgment [or as the case may be] before the Supreme Court of [insert name of Australian Colony] for payment of the sum of on account of [here state shortly the nature of claim and amount of costs].