New Zealand Acts

TRANS-TASMAN PROCEEDINGS ACT 2010 - SECT 66

66 Costs and expenses of enforcement of registered Australian judgments

1 If a proceeding for enforcement of a registered Australian judgment is commenced in a New Zealand court, the following costs and expenses are recoverable in the proceeding:

a) costs and expenses reasonably incurred by or on behalf of the entitled person in, or incidental to, registration of the judgment:

b) costs and expenses reasonably incurred by or on behalf of the entitled person in attempting to enforce the judgment in the original court or tribunal.

2 However, an entitled person's entitlement to recover, and a liable person's liability to pay, the costs and expenses specified in subsection (1)(b) are the same as they would be in a proceeding in that New Zealand court for enforcement of—

a) a judgment given by the New Zealand court that is similar to the registered Australian judgment; or

b) if there is no such similar judgment, a judgment given by the New Zealand court and of a kind that is most analogous to the registered Australian judgment.