CAP. 188]
Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal
[1981 Ed.
Enforcement)
Originally 13 of 1977.
31 of 1980.
61 of 1981.
L.N. 27/79.
Short title.
Interpretation. 1972 c. 18, s. 21.
CHAPTER 188
MAINTENANCE ORDERS (RECIPROCAL
ENFORCEMENT)
To make new provision, in place of the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance, for facilitating the recovery of maintenance by or from persons in Hong Kong from or by other persons in reciprocating countries.
[31 January 1979.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Ordinance.
2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
“affiliation order” means an order (however described) adjudging, finding or declaring a person to be the father of a child, whether or not it also provides for the maintenance of the child;
"certificate of arrears", in relation to a maintenance order, means a certificate certifying that the sum specified in the certificate is, to the best of the information or belief of the officer giving the certificate, the amount of the arrears due under the order at the date of the certificate or, as the case may be, that, to the best of his information or belief, there are no arrears due thereunder at that date;
"certified copy", in relation to an order of a court, means a copy of the order certified to be a true copy by the proper officer of the court which made the order; (Amended, 61 of 1981, s. 2) "court" includes any tribunal or person having power to make, confirm, enforce, vary or revoke a maintenance order;
"maintenance order" means any of the following orders (however described)
(a) an order (including an affiliation order or order consequent upon an affiliation order) which provides for the periodical payment of sums of money towards the maintenance of any person, being a person whom the person liable to make payments under the order is, according to the law applied in the place where the order was made, liable to maintain; and
(b) an affiliation order or order consequent upon an affiliation order, being an order which provides for the payment by a person adjudged, found or declared to be a child's father of expenses incidental to the child's birth or, where the child has died, of his funeral expenses; and
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