Cap. 188B 《贍養令(交互強制執行)(指定交互執行國)令》Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) (Designation of Reciprocating Countries) Order

The country or place specified in Part I of the Schedule is hereby designated as a reciprocating country for the purposes of the Ordinance as regards maintenance orders generally.

Each of the countries and places specified in Part II of the Schedule is hereby designated as a reciprocating country for the purposes of the Ordinance as regards maintenance orders other than affiliation orders.

Sections 2, 6, 13 to 16 and 18 of the Ordinance shall apply in relation to a maintenance order transmitted under section 4 or 5 of the repealed Ordinance to one of the countries and places specified in the Schedule to which immediately before the coming into operation of this order the repealed Ordinance applied, as they apply in relation to a maintenance order sent to that country or place in pursuance of section 4 of the Ordinance or made by virtue of section 5 of the Ordinance and confirmed by a competent court in that country or place.

Sections 2 and 9 to 19 of the Ordinance shall apply in relation to a maintenance order made in one of the countries and places specified in the Schedule to which immediately before the coming into operation of this order the repealed Ordinance applied and not being an order which immediately before that date is registered in the District Court under section 3 of the repealed Ordinance, as they apply in relation to a registered order.

A maintenance order made by a court in one of the countries and places specified in the Schedule which has been confirmed by the District Court under section 6 of the repealed Ordinance and is in force immediately before the coming into operation of this order, shall be registered under section 8(5) of the Ordinance in like manner as if it had been confirmed by the District Court under subsection (2) of that section.

Any proceedings in the District Court brought under or by virtue of any provision of the repealed Ordinance which are pending immediately before the coming into operation of this order, being proceedings affecting a person resident in one of the countries and places specified in the Schedule, shall be continued as if they had been brought under or by virtue of the corresponding provision of the Ordinance.