14.-(1) An application under section 12 of the Law for a certified copy of a judgment obtained in a District Court shall be made ex parte to the Court in which it was obtained on an affidavit made by the judgment creditor or his advocate.
(2) An affidavit for the purposes of this rule shall-
(a) give particulars of the proceedings in which the judgment was obtained; and
(b) have annexed to it a copy of the writ of summons or the originating summons, petition, or application, by which the proceedings were instituted, the evidence of service thereof upon, or appearance by, the defendant, copies of the statements made at the settlement of issues or copies of the pleadings, if any, in the proceedings, and a statement of the grounds on which the judgment was based ;
(c) state whether the defendant did or did not object to the jurisdiction, and, if so, on what grounds ;
(d) show that the judgment is not subject to any stay of execution and that no notice of appeal against it has been entered, and whether the time for appealing has expired;
(e) state the rate at which the judgment carries interest.
(3) Where an application for a certified copy of a judgment is duly made under this rule, there shall be issued an office copy of the judgment sealed with the seal of the District Court and certified by the President of the District Court as follows:-
“I certify that the above copy judgment is a true copy of a judgment obtained in the District Court of in Cyprus and this copy is issued in accordance with section 12 of the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Law, Cap. 16.
Signed……………..
President of the District Court of
………….in Cyprus.”
together with the following further certificates also under the seal of the District Court and certified by the President of the District Court:-
(a) a certificate giving particulars of the proceedings in which the judgment was obtained and having annexed to it copies of the writ of summons or originating summons, petition, or application, by which the proceedings were instituted showing the manner in which the writ of summons, originating summons, petition, or application, was served on the defendant, or that the defendant appeared thereto, and the objections made to the jurisdiction, if any, the statements made at the settlement of issues or the pleadings, if any, in the proceedings, a statement of the grounds on which the judgment was based and such other particulars as it may be necessary to give to the foreign tribunal in which it is sought to obtain execution of the judgment.
(b) a certificate stating the rate at which the judgment carries interest.