New Zealand Acts

TRANS-TASMAN PROCEEDINGS ACT 2010 - SECT 68

68 Enforcement of registered Australian judgment unaffected by certain rules of private international law

1 Enforcement in New Zealand of a registered Australian judgment is not affected by the operation of any rule of private international law (other than any rule in this subpart) in operation in New Zealand.

2 In particular, no New Zealand court may refuse to enforce a registered Australian judgment, or may delay, limit, or prohibit its enforcement, on all or any of the following grounds:

a) enforcing the judgment would involve the direct or indirect enforcement in New Zealand of an Australian public law:

b) Australian tax is payable under the judgment:

c) the judgment imposes a civil pecuniary penalty or a regulatory regime criminal fine.

3 Subsection (2) does not limit subsection (1) .

Note: 1978 No 103 s 89