Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Regulations 2016

For the purposes of section 16(1) of the Act, payments of sums due under a registered order must, while the order is registered in a court in Singapore, be made through the Official Assignee.

The Official Assignee must —

Where paragraph (2)(b) applies, the Official Assignee must inform the court in writing, within 14 days after the arrangements mentioned in paragraph (2)(b) are made, of the manner in which the sums due under the registered order are to be paid to the person to whom those sums are due.

The Official Assignee may take proceedings in the Official Assignee’s own name for enforcing payment of the sums due under the registered order.

In any proceedings for the confirmation of a provisional order made by a court in a reciprocating country under section 7 of the Act, the person in whose favour the provisional order is made may be represented in the court in Singapore —

In any proceedings for the enforcement of a registered order under section 8 of the Act, the person in whose favour the registered order is made may be represented in the court in Singapore —