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Enforcement of orders

Cap. 175, s. 15 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) The payment of any sum of money directed to be paid by any order under this Act may be enforced in the same manner as the payment of money is enforced under an order of affiliation made pursuant to the Families and Children 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 the Families and Children Act, and thereupon all the provisions of the said Act relating to the collection of money under affiliation orders shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the collection of all sums of money payable periodically pursuant to this Act. CAP. 99.
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