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(2) Where the Supreme Court has made any such order, the court shall, in addition to any other powers for enforcing compliance with the order, have power, in any case where there is any pension or income payable to the person against whom the order is made and capable of being attached, after giving the person by whom the pension or income is payable an opportunity of being heard, to order that such part as the court may think fit of any such pension or income, be attached and paid to the person named by the court, and such further order shall be an authority to the person by whom such pension or income is payable to make the payment so ordered, and the receipt of the person to whom the payment is ordered to be made shall be a good discharge to the person by whom the pension or income is payable.
5.-(1) In this Ordinance the expression "the court" Extension shall also include a magistrate :
Provided that a magistrate shall not be competent--
(a) to entertain any application, other than an applica- tion for variation or discharge of an existing order under this Ordinance, relating to an infant who has attained the age of sixteen years, unless the infant is physically or mentally incapable of self-support; or
(b) to award the payment of sums towards the mainten- ance of any infant exceeding ten dollars a week.
of jurisdic- tion to magistrates.
15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 45, s. 7.
(2) The provisions of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932, Ordinance shall apply to every proceeding before, and every order by No. 41 of a magistrate under this section, and-
(i) the application may be heard and determined other- wise than in open court;
(ii) where the magistrate considers that the matter is one which would more conveniently be dealt with by the Supreme Court, he may refuse to make an order, and in such case, without prejudice to the general right of appeal conferred by the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932, no appeal shall lie from the decision of the magistrate;
(iii) an order for the payment of money shall be enforce- able in like manner as an order for the payment of a civil debt recoverable summarily before a inagistrate;
1932.
(iv) where an order contains a provision committing to the applicant the legal custody of any infant a copy of the order may be served on any person in whose actual custody the infant may for the time being be, and thereupon the provision may, without prejudice to any other remedy open to the applicant, be enforced under sub-section (2) of section 34 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932, as if it were an order Ordinance of the magistrate requiring that person to give up the infant No. 41 of to the applicant.
1932.
6. The Infants Custody Ordinance, 1886, is repealed. Repeal of
Ordinance No. 2 of 1886.