Section 9
Order for maintenance.
The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007
About this Act
An Act to provide for more effective provisions for the maintenance and welfare of parents and senior citizens guaranteed and recognised under the Constitution and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) If children or relatives, as the case may be, neglect or refuse to
maintain a senior citizen being unable to maintain himself, the Tribunal may, on being satisfied of such
neglect or refusal, order such children or relatives to make a monthly allowance at such monthly rate for
the maintenance of such senior citizen, as the Tribunal may deem fit and to pay the same to such senior
citizen as the Tribunal may, from time to time, direct.
(2) The maximum maintenance allowance which may be ordered by such Tribunal shall be such as may be prescribed by the State Government which shall not exceed ten thousand rupees per month.
(2) The maximum maintenance allowance which may be ordered by such Tribunal shall be such as may be prescribed by the State Government which shall not exceed ten thousand rupees per month.