Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1975 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Miscellaneous Provisions
15. Order, etc., made abroad need not be proved
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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 the person’s capacity as a judge, magistrate or officer of the court, is deemed without further proof to have been duly sealed or signed by that person, as the case may be;
court
“court” includes any tribunal or person having power to make, confirm, enforce, vary or revoke a maintenance order that is enforceable by a civil court of competent jurisdiction;
the person by whom the order was signed is deemed without further proof to have been a judge, magistrate or officer (as the case may be) of that court when the person signed it and, in the case of an officer, to have been authorised to sign it; and
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.
certified copy
“certified copy”, in relation to an order of court, means a copy of the order certified by the proper officer of the court to be a true copy;