Malaysia legislation
Section 8
Section 8
(2)
This section shall not apply in the case of any judgment—
(a)
where the judgment has been registered and the registration thereof has been set aside on some ground other than—
(i)
that a sum of money was not payable under the judgment;
(ii)
that the judgment had been wholly or partly satisfied;
or
(iii)
that at the date of the application the judgment could not be enforced by execution in the country of the original court; or
(b)
where the judgment has not been registered, it is shown
(whether it could have been registered or not) that if it had been registered the registration thereof would have been set aside on an application for that purpose on some ground other than one of the grounds specified in paragraph (a).
(3)
Nothing in this section shall be taken to prevent any court in
Malaysia recognizing any judgment as conclusive of any matter of law or fact decided therein if that judgment would have been so recognized before the coming into force of this Act.
Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments 13
Power to make judgments unenforceable in Malaysia if no reciprocity