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 9: Payment of charges for transmission of sums awarded as maintenance and other costs and charges.
    A Court in registering or confirming an order for maintenance in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall direct that the charges for the transmission to the Court, from which the order has been received or in which the provisional order has been made, as the case may be, of the sum awarded as maintenance shall be borne by the person against whom the order has been so made or confirmed, and shall be recovered from him in addition to the sum awarded as maintenance and in addition to, and in the same manner as, such other costs and charges as may be awarded or levied by the Court.
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