Women’s Charter 1961 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Enforcement of Maintenance Orders
80. Application for maintenance enforcement order — by and to whom
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Any of the following persons may make an application to the court for enforcement of a maintenance order that the person alleges to have been breached:
maintenance order
“maintenance order” means —(a)an order for the payment of monthly sums or a lump sum for the maintenance of a wife, an incapacitated husband or a child made or deemed to be made by a court under Part 8;(b)an order for the payment of monthly or periodical sums or a lump sum by way of maintenance or alimony to a wife or former wife or an incapacitated husband or incapacitated former husband, or by way of maintenance for the benefit of any child, under Part 10;(c)an order for maintenance made by the Syariah Court under the Administration of Muslim Law Act 1966; or(d)a maintenance order as defined in section 2 of the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1975;
the person who applied for the maintenance order;
a person who is a payee under the maintenance order for the benefit of a child and who is —
a person having custody or care and control of the child; or
subject to subsection (2) — a trustee of the child;
without limiting paragraph (b), where the maintenance order was applied for by the person appointed by the Minister under section 69(3)(d) (called the appointed person) — a person who is a payee under the maintenance order and who is the person nominated by the appointed person to receive payment under the maintenance order;
any other person who has a right under any other written law to enforce the maintenance order.
Any person wishing to make an application under subsection (1), who is a trustee of a child jointly with one or more other persons, must obtain the consent of all the other trustees.
child
“child” means a child of the marriage as defined in section 92 but who is below 21 years of age.