Act Number: 18

Act Name: The Maintenance Orders Enforcement Act, 1921

Year: 1921

Enactment Date: 1921-10-05

Long Title: An Act to facilitate the enforcement in India of Maintenance Orders made in reciprocating territories and vice versa.

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Department of Legal Affairs

Section 5: Transmission of maintenance orders made in India.
    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".
Scroll to Top