Section 5Transmission of maintenance orders made in India

Section 5: Transmission of maintenance orders made in India

5. Transmission of maintenance orders made in India

Where a Court in [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.

Amendment notes (1)
  1. Subs . Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule, for "the States".