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NATIONAL LEGISLATION OVERVIEWS
NATIONAL LEGISLATION OVERVIEWS
Maintenance Act, No. 99 of
1998
Long title
To restate and amend certain laws relating to maintenance.
Table of contents
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Long title
To restate and amend certain laws relating to maintenance.
Table of contents
| SECTION | TITLE |
| PREAMBLE | |
| ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS | |
| CHAPTER 1. INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION OF ACT | |
| 1. | Definitions |
| 2. | Application of Act |
| CHAPTER 2. MAINTENANCE COURTS AND COURT OFFICERS | |
| 3. | Maintenance courts |
| 4. | Maintenance officers |
| 5. | Maintenance investigators |
| CHAPTER 3. MAINTENANCE ENQUIRIES | |
| 6. | Complaints relating to maintenance |
| 7. | Investigation of complaints |
| 8. | Examination of persons by maintenance officer |
| 9. | Maintenance officer may cause witnesses to be subpoenaed |
| 10. | Enquiry by maintenance court |
| 11. | Rights and privileges of witnesses |
| 12. | Proof of statements in writing by consent |
| 13. | Evidence and findings of fact recorded in respect of existing maintenance order |
| 14. | Proof of entries in accounting records and documentation of banks |
| CHAPTER 4. MAINTENANCE AND OTHER ORDERS | |
| 15. | Duty of parents to support their children |
| 16. | Maintenance and ancillary orders |
| 17. | Orders by consent |
| 18. | Orders by default |
| 19. | Variation or setting aside of certain orders |
| 20. | Orders as to costs of service and directions [...Title amended by Act 2013_009_008_20150909 - was entitled "Orders as to costs of service"] |
| 21. | Orders relating to scientific tests regarding paternity |
| 22. | Notice of substitution or discharge of maintenance orders |
| 23. | Transfer of maintenance orders |
| 24. | Effect of orders of maintenance court |
| 25. | Appeals against orders |
| CHAPTER 5. CIVIL EXECUTION | |
| 26. | Enforcement of maintenance or other orders |
| 27. | Warrants of execution |
| 28. | Attachment of emoluments |
| 29. | Notice relating to attachment of emolument |
| 30. | Attachment of debts |
| CHAPTER 6. OFFENCES AND PENALTIES | |
| 31. | Offences relating to maintenance orders |
| 32. | Offences relating to examination of persons by maintenance officer |
| 33. | Offences relating to witnesses |
| 34. | Offences relating to false information |
| 35. | Offences relating to maintenance enquiries |
| 36. | Offences relating to publication of information in respect of children |
| 37. | Offences relating to disclosure |
| 38. | Offences relating to certain notices |
| 39. | Offences relating to notice of change of address |
| 39A. | Offences relating to maintenance investigators [...inserted by Act 2013_009_017_20150909] |
| CHAPTER 7. ORDERS RELATING TO PROSECUTIONS | |
| 40. | Recovery of arrear maintenance |
| 41. | Conversion of criminal proceedings into maintenance enquiry |
| CHAPTER 8. GENERAL AND SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS | |
| 42. | Record of proceedings at maintenance enquiries |
| 43. | Photographs of persons subject to maintenance orders |
| 44. | Regulations |
| 45. | Repeal or amendment of laws, and savings |
| 46. | Transitional arrangements in respect of execution of maintenance or other orders |
| 47. | Short title and commencement |
| Sch. | SCHEDULE. LAWS REPEALED OR AMENDED (SECTION 45) [s45] |
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| As amended by Act 2001_042_000_20011207 . | N/A | REQ.INFO | LINK |
| As amended by Act 2003_055_000_20030431 . | N/A | REQ.INFO | LINK |
| As amended by Act 2005_022_000_20060111 . | N/A | REQ.INFO | LINK |
| As amended by Act 2008_031_000_20081105 . | N/A | REQ.INFO | LINK |
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