1981 Ed.]
Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement)
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(c) the circumstances and manner in which cases may be remitted by a court in Hong Kong to courts in reciprocating countries;
(d) the circumstances and manner in which a court in Hong Kong may for the purposes of this Ordinance communicate with courts in reciprocating countries.
(Amended, 61 of 1981, s. 6)
20. Where the Governor proposes by an order under section 3 to designate as a reciprocating country a country or territory to which at the commencement of that section the repealed Ordinance extended, that Order may contain such provisions as the Governor considers expedient for the purpose of securing-
(a) that the provisions of this Ordinance apply, subject to such modifications as may be specified in the Order, to maintenance orders, or maintenance orders of a specified class-
(i) made by a court in Hong Kong against a person residing in that country or territory, or (Amended, 61 of 1981, s. 6)
(ii) made by a court in that country or territory against a person residing in Hong Kong,
being orders to which immediately before the date of the coming into operation of the Order the repealed Ordinance applied;
(b) that any maintenance order, or maintenance order of a specified class, made by a court in that country or territory which has been confirmed by the District Court under section 6 of the repealed Ordinance and is in force immediately before that date is registered under section 8 of this Ordinance;
(c) that any proceedings brought under or by virtue of a provision of the repealed Ordinance in the District Court which are pending at that date, being proceedings affecting a person resident in that country or territory, are continued as if they had been brought under or by virtue of the corresponding provision of this Ordinance.
21. The Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance is repealed.
Application to certain orders and proceedings under repealed Ordinance.
1972 c. 18, s. 24.
Repeal.
(Cap. 13. 1964 Ed.)