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Maintenance Orders ( Reciprocal Enforcement) Rules
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MAINTENANCE ORDERS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT) RULES
(Cap. 188, section 19)
[Subsidiary]
L.N. 29/79.
L.N. 127/82.
[31 January 1979.]
1. These rules may be cited as the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Rules.
2. [Revoked, L.N. 127/82]
3. (1) An application under section 4 of the Ordinance (transmission of maintenance order made in Hong Kong for enforcement in a reciprocating country) may be made in writing by or on behalf of the payee under the order.
(2) Any application made in pursuance of paragraph (1) shall
(a) specify the date on which the order was made:
(b) contain such particulars as are known to the applicant of
the whereabouts of the payer;
(c) specify any matters likely to assist in the identification of
the payer;
(d) where possible, be accompanied by a recent photograph of
the payer.
(3) In this rule, "the payer" means the payer under the order to which the application relates.
4. A document setting out or summarizing any evidence required by section 5(5)(b), 6(4) or 10(5) of the Ordinance (provisional orders) to be authenticated shall be authenticated by a certificate, signed by the judge before whom that evidence was given, that the document is the original document containing or recording or, as the case may be, summarizing that evidence or a true copy of that document.
5. Any documents required by section 6(4) or 10(5) of the Ordinance to be sent to a court in a reciprocating country shall be sent to that court by post.
6. (1) For the purposes of compliance with section 6(9) of the Ordinance (revocation by Hong Kong court of provisional order) there shall be served on the person on whose application the maintenance order was made a notice which shall-
(a) set out the evidence received or taken, as the case may be,
in pursuance of that subsection:
Citation.
Requirements for application under section 4.
Authentication of document setting out or summarizing evidence.
Method of transmission of documents to reciprocating country.
Procedure upon revocation of a provisional order.