Hong Kong Regulations

MAINTENANCE ORDERS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT) RULES - RULE 8

Method of payment of sums due under a provisional order

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 27 of 1999 s. 3

(1) Payment of sums due under a registered order shall, while the order is
registered in the District Court, be made to the Registrar during such hours
and at such place as he may direct; and the Registrar shall send those
payments by post to the court which made the order or to such other person or
authority as that court or the Chief Executive may from time to time direct.
(L.N. 127 of 1982; 27 of 1999 s. 3)

(2) Where it appears to the Registrar to whom payments under any maintenance
order are made by virtue of paragraph (1) that any sums payable under the
order are in arrear he may and, if such sums are in arrear to an amount equal
to four times the sum payable weekly under the order, he shall, whether the
person for whose benefit the payment should have been made requests him to do
so or not, proceed in his office and title of Registrar for the recovery of
those sums, unless it appears to him that it is unreasonable in the
circumstances to do so.