Section 5
Transmission of maintenance orders made in India.
The Maintenance Orders Enforcement Act, 1921
About this Act
An Act to facilitate the enforcement in India of Maintenance Orders made in reciprocating territories and vice versa.
Where a Court in 1
[India] has,
whether before or after the commencement of this Act, made a maintenance order against any
person, and it is proved to that Court that the person against whom the order was made is resident
in a reciprocating territory, the Court shall send to the Central Government, for transmission to the
proper authority of that territory, a certified copy of the order.
Notes
1. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule, for "the States".