Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) (Designation of Reciprocating Countries) Notification

Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act

(Chapter 169, Section 17)

Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) (Designation of Reciprocating Countries) Notification

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G.N. No. S 94/1976

REVISED EDITION 1990

(25th March 1992)

[3rd May 1976]

Citation

1.  This Notification may be cited as the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) (Designation of Reciprocating Countries) Notification.

Definitions

2.  In this Notification —

“column (1)” and “column (2)” mean respectively columns (1) and (2) of the Schedule;

“previous Act” means the Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders Act¹.

[1970 Ed., Cap. 26.]

¹  Now known as the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act (1985 Ed., Cap. 168),

Countries and territories designated reciprocating country

3.  Each of the countries and territories specified in column (1) is designated as a reciprocating country for the purposes of the Act as regards maintenance orders of the description specified in respect of that country or territory in column (2).

Provisions of Act to apply in relation to maintenance order

4.—(1)  Sections 2, 5 and 12 to 15 of the Act shall apply in relation to a maintenance order transmitted under section 4 or 5 of the previous Act to one of the countries and territories specified in column (1), being an order of the description specified in respect of that country or territory in column (2) to which immediately before 3rd May 1976 the previous Act applied, as they apply in relation to a maintenance order sent to that country or territory in pursuance of section 3 of the Act or made by virtue of section 4 of the Act and confirmed by a competent court in that country or territory.

(2)  Sections 2 and 8 to 16 of the Act shall apply in relation to a maintenance order made in one of the countries and territories specified in column (1), being an order of the description specified in respect of that country or territory in column (2) to which immediately before 3rd May 1976 the previous Act applied as they apply in relation to a registered order.

(3)  A maintenance order made by a court in one of the countries and territories specified in column (1) being an order of the description specified in respect of that country or territory in column (2) which has been confirmed by a court in Singapore under section 6 of the previous Act and is in force immediately before 3rd May 1976, shall be registered under section 7(5) of the Act in like manner as if it had been confirmed by that court in Singapore under section 7 (2).

(4)  Any proceedings brought under or by virtue of any provision of the previous Act in a court in Singapore which are pending immediately before 3rd May 1976, being proceedings affecting a person resident in one of the countries and territories specified in column (1), shall be continued as if they had been brought under or by virtue of the corresponding provision of the Act.