Power to make order for interim payments

(1) Where, on the hearing of an application for an order of maintenance, the application is adjourned for any period exceeding one week the court may order that, as the case may require– (a) the husband pays to the wife, or to an officer of the court, or any third person on her behalf, a weekly sum, not exceeding such an amount as might be ordered to be paid under a final order, for the maintenance of the wife and any child or children in her custody until the final determination of the case; or Married Persons (Protection) [CAP. 175 11 (b) the wife pays to the husband, or to an officer of the court, or any third person on his behalf, a weekly sum, not exceeding such an amount as might be ordered to be paid under a final order, for the maintenance of the husband and any child or children in his custody until the final determination of the case. (2) The order directing a payment under sub-section (1), shall not remain in operation for more than three months from the date on which it was made. (3) Any order under sub-section (1), shall be enforced in like manner as if it were a final order of the court.