A 2
[Subsidiary]
Registration of order other than provisional order.
L.N. 127 82.
Method of payment of sums due under a provisional order.
L.N. 127 83.
Procedure for taking evidence
in Hong Kong at the request of a court in a reciprocating country.
CAP. 188] Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal
Enforcement) Rules
[1982 Ed.
(b) inform that person that it appears to the court that the maintenance order ought not to have been made; and (c) inform that person that if he wishes to make representations with respect to the evidence set out in the notice he may do so orally or in writing and that if he wishes to adduce further evidence he should notify the Registrar.
(2) Where the Registrar receives notification that the person on whose application the maintenance order was made wishes to adduce further evidence, he shall fix a date for the hearing of such evidence and shall send that person written notice of the date fixed.
7. (1) Where a certified copy of an order, not being a provisional order, is received by the Registrar of the District Court for registration in accordance with the Ordinance, he shall cause the order to be registered by means of a minute or memorandum entered and signed by him in a register kept by him for this purpose.
(2) Where the District Court makes or confirms an order which is required under section 8(5) or 10(10) of the Ordinance to be registered, the Registrar shall enter and sign a minute or memorandum thereof in his register.
(3) Every minute or memorandum entered in pursuance of paragraph (1) or (2) shall specify the section of the Ordinance under which the order in question is registered.
8. (1) Payment of sums due under a registered order shall, while the order is registered in the District Court, be made to the Registrar during such hours and at such place as he may direct; and the Registrar shall send those payments by post to the court which made the order or to such other person or authority as that court or the Governor may from time to time direct.
(2) Where it appears to the Registrar to whom payments under any maintenance order are made by virtue of paragraph (1) that any sums payable under the order are in arrear he may and, if such sums are in arrear to an amount equal to four times the sum payable weekly under the order, he shall, whether the person for whose benefit the payment should have been made requests him to do so or not, proceed in his office and title of Registrar for the recovery of those sums, unless it appears to him that it is unreasonable in the circumstances to do so.
9. (1) Where a request is made by or on behalf of a court in a reciprocating country for the taking in Hong Kong of the evidence of a person residing therein then, subject to paragraph (2)—
(a) the evidence shall be taken in the same manner as if that person were a witness in proceedings on a summons;
(b) any oral evidence so taken shall be put into writing and read to the person who gave it, who shall be required to sign the document; and
A 2
[Subsidiary]
Registration of order other than provisional order.
L.N. 127 82.
Method of payment of sums due under a provisional order.
L.N. 127 83.
Procedure for taking evidence
in Hong Kong at the request of a court in a reciprocating country.
CAP. 188] Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal
Enforcement) Rules
[1982 Ed.
(b) inform that person that it appears to the court that the maintenance order ought not to have been made; and (c) inform that person that if he wishes to make representa- tions with respect to the evidence set out in the notice he may do so orally or in writing and that if he wishes to adduce further evidence he should notify the Registrar.
(2) Where the Registrar receives notification that the person on whose application the maintenance order was made wishes to adduce further evidence, he shall fix a date for the hearing of such evidence and shall send that person written notice of the date fixed.
7. (1) Where a certified copy of an order, not being a provisional order, is received by the Registrar of the District Court for registration in accordance with the Ordinance, he shall cause the order to be registered by means of a minute or memorandum entered and signed by him in a register kept by him for this purpose.
(2) Where the District Court makes or confirms an order which is required under section 8(5) or 10(10) of the Ordinance to be registered, the Registrar shall enter and sign a minute or memoran- dum thereof in his register.
(3) Every minute or memorandum entered in pursuance of paragraph (1) or (2) shall specify the section of the Ordinance under which the order in question is registered.
8. (1) Payment of sums due under a registered order shall, while the order is registered in the District Court, be made to the Registrar during such hours and at such place as he may direct; and the Registrar shall send those payments by post to the court which made the order or to such other person or authority as that court or the Governor may from time to time direct.
(2) Where it appears to the Registrar to whom payments under any maintenance order are made by virtue of paragraph (1) that any sums payable under the order are in arrear he may and, if such sums are in arrear to an amount equal to four times the sum payable weekly under the order, he shall, whether the person for whose benefit the payment should have been made requests him to do so or not, proceed in his office and title of Registrar for the recovery of those sums, unless it appears to him that it is unreason- able in the circumstances to do so.
9. (1) Where a request is made by or on behalf of a court in a reciprocating country for the taking in Hong Kong of the evidence of a person residing therein then, subject to paragraph (2)—
(a) the evidence shall be taken in the same manner as if that person were a witness in proceedings on a summons;
(b) any oral evidence so taken shall be put into writing and read to the person who gave it, who shall be required to sign the document; and
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