No. S 226
Maintenance Orders
(Reciprocal Enforcement) Act
(Chapter 169)
Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) (Designation of Reciprocating Countries) Notification 2009
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 17 of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act, the Minister for Law hereby makes the following Notification:
Citation and commencement
1.  This Notification may be cited as the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) (Designation of Reciprocating Countries) Notification 2009 and shall come into operation on 22nd May 2009.
Designation of Australia as reciprocating country
2.  The Minister hereby designates the Commonwealth of Australia and its external territories as a reciprocating country for the purposes of the Act as regards maintenance orders other than affiliation orders.
Transitional provisions
3.—(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 Commonwealth of Australia or any of its external territories to which immediately before 22nd May 2009 the previous Act applied, as they apply in relation to a maintenance order sent to the Commonwealth of Australia or any of its external territories 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 the Commonwealth of Australia or any of its external territories.
(2)  Sections 2 and 8 to 16 of the Act shall apply in relation to a maintenance order made in the Commonwealth of Australia or any of its external territories to which immediately before 22nd May 2009 the previous Act applied as they apply in relation to a registered order.
(3)  A maintenance order made by a court in the Commonwealth of Australia or any of its external territories which has been confirmed by a court in Singapore under section 6 of the previous Act and is in force immediately before 22nd May 2009, 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 22nd May 2009, being proceedings affecting a person resident in the Commonwealth of Australia or any of its external territories, shall be continued as if they had been brought under or by virtue of the corresponding provision of the Act.
(5)  In respect of the territory of Christmas Island, paragraph 2 shall supersede paragraph 3(2) of, and Part II of the Schedule to, the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) (Designation of Reciprocating Countries) (No. 2) Notification (N 2).
(6)  In this paragraph —
“maintenance order” does not include an affiliation order;
“previous Act” means the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act (Cap. 168).

Made this 21st day of May 2009.

CHAN LAI FUNG
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.
[LAW 06/015/011.2; AG/LEG/SL/169/2007/1 Vol. 1]