Section 9: Application of Part I to Commonwealth

9. Application of Part I to Commonwealth (1) The President may, by regulations, direct that Part I shall apply to the Commonwealth and to judgments obtained in the Commonwealth as it applies to foreign countries and judgments obtained in the Courts of foreign countries and, in the event of the President so directing, this Act shall have effect accordingly and the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act shall cease to have effect except in relation to any part of the Commonwealth to which it extends at the date of the coming into operation of the regulations. (2) Where, after the President has made a direction under subsection (1), a Proclamation is made under section 3 extending Part I to any part of the Commonwealth to which the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act applies, that Act shall cease to have effect in relation to that part of the Commonwealth. [S. 9 amended by Act 48 of 1991.]