Miscellaneous

Description

Maintenance Amendment Act of 2015

To amend the Maintenance Act, 1998, so as to further regulate the lodging of complaints relating to maintenance and the jurisdiction of maintenance courts;

1. to further regulate the investigation of maintenance complaints;
2. to further regulate the securing of witnesses for purposes of a maintenance enquiry; to further regulate maintenance enquiries in order to make provision for the granting of interim maintenance orders;
3. to further regulate the making of maintenance orders; to further regulate the making of maintenance orders by consent;
4. to further regulate the circumstances in which maintenance orders may be granted by default; to further regulate the granting of cost orders;
5. to regulate the effect a maintenance order made by a maintenance court has on a maintenance order made by another court;
6. to further regulate the transfer of maintenance orders; to regulate the reporting of a maintenance defaulter to any business which has as its object the granting of credit or is involved in the credit rating of persons;
7. to further regulate the attachment of emoluments; to increase the penalties for certain offences;
8. to create certain new offences; to further regulate the conversion of criminal proceedings into maintenance enquiries;
9. and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Author

Travis Petersen

Creation Date

2019-10-04 13:48:55

Modified

2019-10-04 11:10:55

File size

390.2KB

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