ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act
6. Registration
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
6. Registration
(1)Where, on an application under section 5(1), the High Court is satisfied as to the proof of matters required by this Act and any rules of court, it shall, subject to this Act, order the judgment to be registered.(2)An order shall not be registered under subsection (1) if it appears to the High Court that—(a)it has been wholly satisfied; or(b)it could not be enforced by execution in the country of the original court.(3)If it appears to the High Court that the judgment has been partly satisfied, the judgment may be registered under subsection (1) only in respect of the sums or the items of movable property remaining payable or deliverable.(4)Where a judgment for the payment of a sum of money is satisfied in part by payment in a currency other than the currency of Kenya, the extent to which the registered judgment has been satisfied shall, for the purposes of subsection (3), be calculated on the basis of the rate of exchange prevailing at the date or dates of payment of the relevant sum or sums.(5)Where a judgment is not in all respects a judgment which may be registered under this Act but provisions of the judgment could, if they alone constituted the judgment of the original court, be so registered, the court may register those provisions of the judgment.