LawgistThe Maintenance Orders Enforcement Act
10Proof of documents signed by officers of Court
For the purposes of this Act, any document purporting to be signed by a judge or officer of a Court outside 1 [India] shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been so signed without proof of the signature of judicial or official character of the person appearing to have signed it, and the officerof a Court by whom a document is signed shall, until the contrary is provided, be deemed to have been the proper officer of the Court to sign the document.
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1. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule, for "the States".
All sections
- 1 Short title and extent
- 2 Definitions
- 3 Declaration of reciprocal arrangements
- 4 Registration in India of maintenance orders maintenance orders made in the reciprocating territories
- 5 Transmission of maintenance orders made in India
- 6 Power of summary Courts to make provisional maintenance order against persons resident in reciprocating territories
- 7 Powers of Court of summary jurisdiction to confirm maintenance order made out of India
- 8 Enforcement of maintenance orders
- 9 Payment of charges for transmission of sums awarded as maintenance and other costs and charges
- 10 Proof of documents signed by officers of Court
- 11 Depositions to be evidence
- 12 Rule-making power
