Power to order payments to be made through collecting officer

(1) When a magistrate makes a maintenance order for a child born out of wedlock, he shall, unless upon representation expressly made in that behalf by the applicant for the maintenance order he is satisfied that it is undesirable to do so, provide in that order that all payments under the maintenance order be made to the collecting officer of the district in which such order is made and thereupon all payments made thereunder shall be made to the collecting officer and not otherwise. (2) Payment of the amount so ordered may be made to the collecting officer in person or by letter sent by registered post addressed to the collecting officer and posted in time to be delivered to him on the day appointed for payment. (3) The collecting officer shall receive all payments made to him under this Act and shall make payment to the mother of the child born out of wedlock or to such other person as is named in the maintenance order of the sum directed to be paid thereunder or such part thereof as he receives without any deduction therefrom. (4) Where the maintenance order provides that payment be made to the collecting officer the applicant for the order shall thereupon state to the collecting officer her nearest post office (5) Subject to subsection (6) of this section, payment shall be made by the collecting officer directly to the mother of the child born out of wedlock or to such other person as is named in the maintenance order at the office of the collecting officer weekly if such mother or person resides in the town in which such office is situate. (6) In any other cases, payment shall be made by the collecting officer by sending fortnightly to the clerk of the court of the magistrates court in the district in which the mother resides the sums collected on her behalf and the said clerk of the court shall pay the same to the mother on demand. 46