Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1975 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Miscellaneous Provisions
19. Transitional provisions
Feedback & supportWhere the Minister proposes by a notification in the Gazette under section 17 to designate as a reciprocating country a country or territory to which at the commencement of that section the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act (Cap. 168, 1985 Revised Edition) (called in this section the repealed Act) extended, that notification may contain such provisions as the Minister considers expedient for the purposes of securing —
reciprocating country
“reciprocating country” has the meaning given by section 17;
that the provisions of this Act applied, subject to such modifications as may be specified in the notification, to maintenance orders, or maintenance orders of a specified class —
made by a court in Singapore against a person residing in that country or territory; or
court
“court” includes any tribunal or person having power to make, confirm, enforce, vary or revoke a maintenance order that is enforceable by a civil court of competent jurisdiction;
made by a court in that country or territory against a person residing in Singapore,being orders to which immediately before the date of the commencement of the notification the repealed Act applied;
that any maintenance order, or maintenance order of a specified class, made by a court in that country or territory which has been confirmed by a court in Singapore under section 6 of the repealed Act and is in force immediately before that date is registered under section 7 of this Act; and
maintenance order
“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;
that any proceedings brought under or by virtue of a provision under the repealed Act in a court in Singapore which are pending at that date, being proceedings affecting a person resident in that country or territory, are continued as if they had been brought under or by virtue of the corresponding provision of this Act.