Reciprocal Enforcement (Foreign Judgments) Act comes into operation

The Reciprocal Enforcement (Foreign Judgments) Act, Mount Vema 2018 comes into operation today after receiving the Royal Mount Vema Seal of Approval.  The Act is the 17th legislation to enter the statutory books of the Vema Seamount Territory to be followed by thousands of legislations still to come into force.
 
The Reciprocal Enforcement (Foreign Judgments) legislation of Mount Vema, is an Act to make provision for the enforcement in the Kingdom of Mount Vema of judgments given in foreign countries which accord reciprocal treatment to judgments given in the Kingdom of Mount Vema, for facilitating the enforcement in foreign countries of judgments given in the Kingdom of Mount Vema, and for other purposes in connection with related matters.
 
The act includes power to extend to foreign countries giving reciprocal treatment, application for, and effect of, registration of foreign judgments, rules of court, cases in which registered judgments must, or may, be set aside, especially when a defendant in the original proceedings, was a person who under the rules of public international law was entitled to immunity from the jurisdiction of the courts of the country of the original court and did not submit to the jurisdiction of that court.