Clause 28
Amendment of section 139
In the Women’s Charter, in section 139, after subsection (3), insert —“(3A) Unless the Family Justice Rules provide otherwise, an application to a Family Court under section 126B (called in this subsection the relevant application) —
must be made in the same manner as an application for a summons is made to a District Court or Magistrate’s Court under the Criminal Procedure Code 2010; and
is to be dealt with —
as if the relevant application were a complaint for the purposes of that Code; but(ii)in accordance with only such provisions of that Code, and with such provisions of any other written law, as may be prescribed by the Family Justice Rules.”.