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Settlement Of Debts Law (No. 27 of 1975) - Sect 6

Procedure after settlement or determination by Board

6.
(1) Where any debtor fails to make payment in accordance with the terms of settlement or the determination as -set out in the .certificate, the creditor may produce a certified copy of such certificate before the appropriate court within the jurisdiction of which such debtor resides and apply for execution.
(2) Immediately upon the production before the District Court or the Magistrate's Court, as the case may be, of the certified copy of the certificate referred to in subsection (1), the District Judge or the Magistrate of that Court shall cause such copy to be filed of record in such Court. Such certificate shall, with effect from the date of such filing, be deemed to be a decree of that Court, and such of the provisions of Chapter VI of the Administration of Justice Law, No, 44 of 1973, as relate to the execution of decrees shall, as far as may be practicable, apply, mutatis mutandis, to and in relation to such certificate which is deemed to be a decree.


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