Foreign Judgments Act 1991
11Judgments to which Part 2 does not apply
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11 Judgments to which Part 2 does not apply
For the purposes of proceedings brought in Australia for the recovery of an amount payable under a judgment given in an action in personam by a court of a country, not being a judgment to which Part 2 applies, the court is not taken to have had jurisdiction to give the judgment merely because the judgment debtor: (a) entered an appearance in proceedings in the court; or (b) participated in proceedings in the court only to such extent as was necessary; for the purpose only of one or more of the following: (c) protecting, or obtaining the release of: (i) property seized or threatened with seizure, in the proceedings; or (ii) property subject to an order restraining its disposition or disposal; (d) contesting the jurisdiction of the court; (e) inviting the court in its discretion not to exercise its jurisdiction in the proceedings.