Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) (Designation of Reciprocating Countries) (No. 2) Notification

Maintenance Orders
(Reciprocal Enforcement) Act

(CHAPTER 169, Section 17)

Maintenance Orders
(Reciprocal Enforcement) (Designation of Reciprocating Countries) (No.2)
Notification

N 2

G.N. No. S 180/1979

REVISED EDITION 1990

(25th March 1992)

[17th August 1979]

Citation

1. This Notification may be cited as the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) (Designation of Reciprocating Countries) (No. 2) Notification.

Definition

2. In this Notification, “previous Act” means the Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders Act¹ [Cap. 26, 1970 Ed].

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

Country and territory designated as reciprocating country

3.—(1) The country specified in Part I of the Schedule is designated as a reciprocating country for the purposes of the Act as regards maintenance orders generally.

(2) The territory specified in Part II of the Schedule is designated as a reciprocating country for the purposes of the Act as regards maintenance orders other than affiliation orders.

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 the country and territory specified in the Schedule which immediately before 17th August 1979 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 the country and territory specified in the Schedule to which immediately before 17th August 1979 the previous Act applied, as they apply in relation to a registered order.

(3) A maintenance order made by a court in the country and territory specified in the Schedule being an order which has been confirmed by a court in Singapore under section 6 of the previous Act and is in force immediately before 17th August 1979 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 17th August 1979, being proceedings affecting a person resident in the country or territory specified in the Schedule shall be continued as if they had been brought under or by virtue of the corresponding provision of the Act.

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