Hong Kong Ordinances

MAINTENANCE ORDERS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT) ORDINANCE - SECT 20

Application to certain orders and proceedings under repealed Ordinance

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 27 of 1999 s. 3 Where the Chief
Executive proposes by an order under section 3 to designate as a
reciprocating country a country or place to which at the commencement of that
section the repealed Ordinance extended, that Order may contain such
provisions as the Chief Executive considers expedient for the purpose of
securing-

   (a)  that the provisions of this Ordinance apply, subject to such
        modifications as may be specified in the Order, to maintenance orders,
        or maintenance orders of a specified class-

        (i)    made by a court in Hong Kong against a person residing in that
               country or place, or (Amended 61 of 1981 s. 6)

        (ii)   made by a court in that country or place against a person
               residing in Hong Kong, being orders to which immediately before
               the date of the coming into operation of the Order the
               repealed Ordinance applied;

   (b)  that any maintenance order, or maintenance order of a specified class,
        made by a court in that country or place which has been confirmed by
        the District Court under section 6 of the repealed Ordinance and is in
        force immediately before that date is registered under section 8 of
        this Ordinance;

   (c)  that any proceedings brought under or by virtue of a provision of the
        repealed Ordinance in the District Court which are pending at that
        date, being proceedings affecting a person resident in that country or
        place, are continued as if they had been brought under or by virtue of
        the corresponding provision of this Ordinance. (Amended 27 of 1999 s.
        3) [cf. 1972 c. 18 s. 24 U.K.]