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Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1975 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Orders Made by Courts Inreciprocating Countries

11. Steps to be taken by the Minister where payer under certain orders is not residing in Singapore

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Last amended by an amending law of 2012.

If at any time it appears to the Minister that the payer under a maintenance order, a certified copy of which has been received by the Minister from a reciprocating country, is not residing in Singapore or, in the case of an order which subsequently became a registered order, has ceased to reside in Singapore, the Minister must send to the responsible authority in that country —

(a)

the certified copy of the order in question and a certified copy of any order varying that order;

(b)

if the order has at any time been a registered order, a certificate of arrears signed by the prescribed officer;

(c)

a statement giving such information as the Minister possesses as to the whereabouts of the payer; and

(d)

any other relevant documents in the Minister’s possession relating to the case.

Terms defined in s 2

certificate of arrears
Defined · s 2
“certificate of arrears”, in relation to a maintenance order, means a certificate certifying that the sums specified in the certificate is to the best of the information or belief of the officer giving the certificate the amount of the arrears due under the order at the date of the certificate or (as the case may be) that to the best of the officer’s information or belief there are no arrears due under the order at that date;
Open s 2
certified copy
Defined · s 2
“certified copy”, in relation to an order of court, means a copy of the order certified by the proper officer of the court to be a true copy;
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maintenance order
Defined · s 2
“maintenance order” means an order (however described) of the following descriptions:(a)an order (including an affiliation order or order consequent upon an affiliation order) which provides for the payment of a lump sum or the making of periodical payments —(i)by a man towards the maintenance of his wife or former wife; or(ii)by a person towards the maintenance of the person’s child; and(b)an affiliation order or order consequent upon an affiliation order, being an order which provides for the payment by a person adjudged, found or declared to be a child’s father of expenses incidental to the child’s birth or, where the child had died, of the child’s funeral expenses,and in the case of a maintenance order which has been varied, means that order as varied;
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payer
Defined · s 2
“payer”, in relation to a maintenance order, means the person liable to make payments under the order;
Open s 2
reciprocating country
Defined · s 2
“reciprocating country” has the meaning given by section 17;
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registered order
Defined · s 2
“registered order” means a maintenance order which is for the time being registered in a court in Singapore under this Act;
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responsible authority
Defined · s 2
“responsible authority”, in relation to a reciprocating country, means any person who in that country has functions similar to those of the Minister under this Act.
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