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Enforcement of order
Cap. 173, s. 61 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) Any order made under this Act, if the payments and procedure required by it to be made, or any of them, is or are in arrears, may be enforced by distress, in the manner prescribed in the Summary Jurisdiction (Procedure) Act, Cap. 99, and except as otherwise provided by this Act, all proceedings under this Act shall be as nearly as possible according to the procedure under that Act.
(2) Where the court makes an order under this Act for the payment of money periodically by one person to another, it may, if it thinks fit, order that the payment shall be made through the collecting officer appointed under section 63 of this Act, and thereupon all the provisions of this Part relating to the collection of money under affiliation orders shall,
mutatis mutandis, apply to the collection of all sums of maintenance money payable periodically pursuant to this Act.
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