Section 153 — Family Proceedings Act 1980: Conversion of currency

153 Conversion of currency (1) Where the sum or sums ordered to be paid under a maintenance order which is registered or confirmed in New Zealand under this Part of this Act are expressed in a currency other than the currency of New Zealand, the order shall be registered or confirmed, as the case may require, as if it were an order for payment of such sum or sums in the currency of New Zealand as, on the basis of the rate of exchange prevailing at the date of registration or, as the case may be, of confirmation of the order of the original Court, is equivalent to the sum or sums so ordered to be paid. (2) For the purposes of this section, a written certificate purporting to be signed by an officer of any bank in New Zealand or of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand that a specified rate of exchange prevailed between currencies on a specified day and that at such rate a specified sum in one currency is equivalent to a specified sum in terms of the currency of New Zealand shall be sufficient evidence of the rate of exchange so prevailing and of the equivalent sums in terms of the respective currencies. Compare: 1968 No 62 s 75; 1971 No 59 s 12