Offence to seek enforcement of invalid foreign judgment

(1) Where it has been determined, by a court in Belize, that a foreign judgment is unlawful, void or otherwise invalid, a person who, whether in or outside of Belize, and whether by the institution of proceedings or otherwise, enforces or attempts to enforce the foreign judgment, commits an offence. (2) A person who commits an offence under sub-section (1) above is liable on summary conviction, (a) in the case of an individual, to a fine not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both such fine and imprisonment; (b) in the case of a legal person (whether a body corporate or unincorporate or other entity), to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. (3) An application shall lie to the Supreme Court to issue an injunction against a person restraining the person from commencing, intervening in or continuing any proceedings for enforcement of a foreign judgment, whether in or outside of Belize, on the basis that a competent court in Belize has declared such foreign judgment unlawful, void or otherwise invalid. 30 Crown Proceedings Act (4) Where an offence under this section is committed by a legal person (whether a body corporate or unincorporate or other entity), every person who, at the time of the commission of the offence acted in an official capacity for or on behalf of the legal person, whether as shareholder, partner, director, manager, advisor, secretary or other similar officer, or was purporting to act in any such capacity, is regarded as having committed that offence and is liable to be punished pursuant to sub-section (2) (a), unless he adduces evidence to show that the offence was committed without his knowledge consent or connivance, and that he exercised all such diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions in that capacity and to all the circumstances.