1981 Ed.]
Maintenance Orders ( Reciprocal Enforcement)
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Court, the court may order that there shall be paid out of the general revenue of the Government such sums as appear to the court reasonably sufficient to compensate that person for the expense, trouble or loss of time properly incurred in or incidental to his attendance.
(3) Notwithstanding section 59 of the District Court Ordinance a court in Hong Kong may for the purpose of any proceedings in that court under this Ordinance relating to a maintenance order request a court in a reciprocating country to take or provide evidence relating to such matters as may be specified in the request and may remit the case to that court for that purpose. (Replaced, 61 of 1981, s. 5)
16. For the purposes of this Ordinance, unless the contrary is shown
(a) any order made by a court in a reciprocating country purporting to bear the seal of that court or to be signed by any person in his capacity as a judge, magistrate or officer of the court shall be deemed without further proof to have been duly sealed or, as the case may be, to have been signed by that person;
(b) the person by whom the order was signed shall be deemed without further proof to have been a judge, magistrate or officer, as the case may be, of that court when he signed it and, in the case of an officer, to have been authorized to sign it; and
(c) a document purporting to be a certified copy of an order made by a court in a reciprocating country shall be deemed without further proof to be such a copy.
17. (1) Payment of sums due under a registered order shall, while the order is registered in the District Court, be made in such manner and to such person as may be prescribed.
(2) Where the sums required to be paid under a registered order are expressed in a currency other than the currency of Hong Kong, then, as from the relevant date, the order shall be treated as if it were an order requiring the payment of such sums in the currency of Hong Kong as, on the basis of the rate of exchange prevailing at that date, are equivalent to the sums so required to be paid.
(3) Where the sum specified in any statement, being a statement of the amount of any arrears due under a maintenance order made by a court in a reciprocating country, is expressed in a currency other than the currency of Hong Kong, that sum shall be deemed to be such sum in the currency of Hong Kong as, on the basis of the rate of exchange prevailing at the relevant date, is equivalent to the sum so specified.
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Order etc. made abroad need not be proved.
1972 c. 18. s. 15.
Payment of sums under order made abroad: conversion of currency. 1972 c. 18, s. 16.