Clause 8

Subject to subsection (2), a registered order may be enforced in Singapore as if it has been made by the registering court and as if that court has had jurisdiction to make it; and proceedings for or with respect to the enforcement of any such order may be taken accordingly.

A registered order which has been registered or confirmed by a District Court shall be enforceable in the manner as if the order had been made under Part VII of the Women’s Charter (Cap. 47).

Any person for the time being under an obligation to make payments in pursuance of a registered order shall give notice of any change of address to the clerk of the registering court, and any person failing without reasonable excuse to give such a notice shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

The Magistrate’s Court or District Court by which an order is enforceable by virtue of this section, and the officers thereof, shall take all such steps for enforcing the order as may be prescribed.

In any proceedings for or with respect to the enforcement of an order which is for the time being registered in any court under this Act a certificate of arrears sent to the prescribed officer of the court shall be evidence of the facts stated therein.

Subject to subsection (7), sums of money payable under a registered order shall be payable in accordance with the order as from the date on which the order was made.

The court having power under section 7 to confirm a provisional order may, if it decides to confirm the order, direct that the sums of money payable under it shall be deemed to have been payable in accordance with the order as from such date, being a date later than the date on which the order was made, as it may specify; and subject to any such direction, a maintenance order registered under that section shall be treated as if it had been made in the form in which it was confirmed and as if it had never been a provisional order.