Enforcement in Belize of maintenance orders made in England or Northern Ireland

(1) Where a maintenance order has, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, been made against any person by a court in England or Northern Ireland, and a certified copy of the order has been transmitted by a Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the said Minister shall send a copy of the order to the Attorney General with a request that the prescribed officer of a court in Belize registers it. (2) On receipt thereof the order shall be registered in the prescribed manner and shall, from the date of the registration, be of the same force and effect and, subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act, all proceedings may be taken thereon, as if it had been an order originally obtained in the court in which it is so registered, and that court shall have power to enforce it accordingly. (3) The court in which an order is to be registered as aforesaid shall, if the court by which it was made was a court of superior jurisdiction, be the Supreme Court and, if the court was not a court of superior jurisdiction, be a summary 52