ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

PART I
Preliminary

1.        Short title

PART II
Judgments Generally

2.        Interpretation

3.        Application of Part II

4.        Continuance of existing provisions

5.        Registration of judgment

6.        Rules of court

7.        Cases in which registered judgment must, or may be set aside

8.        Powers of registering court on application to set aside registration

9.        Foreign judgments which can be registered not to be enforceable otherwise

10.        General effect of certain foreign judgments

11.        Power to make foreign judgments unenforceable in Botswana if no reciprocity

12.        Issue of certificates of judgments obtained in Botswana

PART III
Maintenance Orders

13.        Interpretation

14.        Application of Part III

15.        Registration of foreign maintenance order

16.        Confirmation of foreign provisional order

17.        Transmission of maintenance order for registration abroad

18.        Making of provisional order against person resident abroad

19.        Communications between courts

20.        Mode of enforcing orders

21.        Proof of documents signed by officers of foreign court

22.        Depositions to be evidence

Act 16, 1981.

An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the enforcement in Botswana of judgments given in countries which accord reciprocal treatment to judgments given in Botswana, for facilitating the enforcement in other countries of judgments given in Botswana and for other purposes connected therewith.

[Date of Commencement: 25th September, 1981]

1.       Short title

            This Act may be cited as the Judgments (International Enforcement) Act.