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54. Non-recognition or non-enforcement of determination.

(1) A determination by a relevant authority in a contracting state other than the State shall not be recognised or enforced in the State if -

(a) the contracting state is not the state or one of the states in which, pursuant to the provisions of section 49, proceedings leading to the making of the determination should have been brought, or

(b) the determination is not final, or

(c) the determination is manifestly contrary to public policy in the State, or

(d) the person against whom the proceedings leading to the determination were brought did not, notwithstanding that due notice of the proceedings may have been duly served on him in the contracting state, receive notice of the proceedings in sufficient time to enable him to defend the proceedings or, as the case may be, to apply for the proceedings to be reviewed, or

(e) proceedings relating to the same sum have been previously commenced, and are pending, in the State, or

(f) the determination is incompatible with the judgment of any

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