Hong Kong Ordinances

MAINTENANCE ORDERS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT) ORDINANCE - SECT 17

Payment of sums under order made abroad: conversion of currency

(1) Payment of sums due under a registered order shall, while the order is
registered in the District Court, be made in such manner and to such person as
may be prescribed.

(2) Where the sums required to be paid under a registered order are expressed
in a currency other than the currency of Hong Kong, then, as from
the relevant date, the order shall be treated as if it were an order requiring
the payment of such sums in the currency of Hong Kong as, on the basis of the
rate of exchange prevailing at that date, are equivalent to the sums so
required to be paid.

(3) Where the sum specified in any statement, being a statement of the amount
of any arrears due under a maintenance order made by a court in a
reciprocating country, is expressed in a currency other than the currency of
Hong Kong, that sum shall be deemed to be such sum in the currency of Hong
Kong as, on the basis of the rate of exchange prevailing at the relevant date,
is equivalent to the sum so specified.

(4) For the purposes of this section a written certificate purporting to be
signed by an officer of any bank in Hong Kong certifying that a specified rate
of exchange prevailed between currencies at a specified date and that at such
rate a specified sum in the currency of Hong Kong is equivalent to a specified
sum in another specified currency shall be evidence of the rate of exchange so
prevailing on that date and of the equivalent sums in terms of the respective
currencies.

(5) In this section "the relevant date" (有關日期) means-

   (a)  in relation to a registered order or to a statement of arrears due
        under a maintenance order made by a court in a reciprocating country,
        the date on which the order first becomes a registered order or (if
        earlier) the date on which it is confirmed by the District Court;

   (b)  in relation to a registered order which has been varied, the date on
        which the last order varying that order is registered in the District
        Court or (if earlier) the date on which the last order varying that
        order is confirmed by the District Court. [cf. 1972 c. 18 s. 16 U.K.]

"the relevant date" (有關日期)