AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

judgment creditors remedies act 1933
This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
Reprinted as at 30 June 1991
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
	1. 	Short title
	2.	Remedies of judgment creditors

An Act  relating to the Remedies of Judgment Creditors
Short title
1.  This Act may be cited as the Judgment Creditors Remedies Act 1933.1
Remedies of judgment creditors
2.  In addition to any other remedies provided by law, every person in whose favour a judgment of the High Court is given shall be entitled to the same remedies for enforcing it by execution or otherwise—
	(a)	against any property of the person against whom it is given, which is situated in the Territory; and
	(b)	subject to limitations which may be prescribed by any rules of Court made under the High Court Procedure Act 1903-1925 of the Commonwealth or the Judiciary Act 1903-1927 of the Commonwealth, against any person resident or present in the Territory against whom it is given,
as would be allowed, by the laws of the Territory to persons in whose favour a judgment of the Supreme Court is given in like cases.

NOTE
1.	The Judgment Creditors Remedies Act 1933 as shown in this reprint comprises Act
No. 8, 1933 amended as indicated in the Tables below.
	The Australian Capital Territory received Self-Government on 11 May 1989.
	For details regarding the application of the Judgment Creditors Remedies Act 1933 from 11 May 1989 to 1 July 1990 see the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988 of the Commonwealth (No. 106, 1988) and the A.C.T. Self-Government (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 of the Commonwealth (No. 109, 1988), in particular sections 3, 34 and Schedules 3 and 5 and section 12 respectively.  The Self-Government (Citation of Laws) Act 1989 (No. 21, 1989) and the Reserved Laws (Interpretation) Ordinance 1989 (No. 25, 1989) effect the citation change of Ordinance to Act and affect references to Commonwealth legislation.
Table of Laws
Law	Number  
and year	Date of 
notification 
in Gazette	Date of 
commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions	

Judgment Creditors Remedies Ordinance 1933	8, 1933	13 Apr 1933	13 Apr 1933		
Ordinances Revision Ordinance 1937
	27, 1937	23 Dec 1937	23 Dec 1937	—	

Table of Amendments
ad. = added or inserted      am. = amended     rep. = repealed      rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision	How affected

S. 2	am. No. 27, 1937