Absconding to avoid liability for maintenance

(1) Any person who, being required by this Act to maintain another, departs from his usual place of abode with a view to evade any liability for such maintenance, or of any payments which he has been ordered to make for the maintenance of another, commits an offence and on summary conviction, on the complaint of the person authorised by the head of a Government department, or of any person entitled under this Act to make a complaint, or of any police officer, is liable to a 42 fine not exceeding three thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, or to both such fine and term of imprisonment. (2) Any salary, wages or money due to that person shall be liable to satisfy the arrears of any payments ordered to be made under the provisions of this Act, and may be attached under the order of the magistrate before whom the person has been tried and convicted, and be required to be paid to the person entitled under the maintenance order to receive them. etc.