LawgistThe Maintenance Orders Enforcement Act
9Payment of charges for transmission of sums awarded as maintenance and other costs and charges
A Court in registering or confirming an order for maintenance in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall direct that the charges for the transmission to the Court, from which the order has been received or in which the provisional order has been made, as the case may be, of the sum awarded as maintenance shall be borne by the person against whom the order has been so made or confirmed, and shall be recovered from him in addition to the sum awarded as maintenance and in addition to, and in the same manner as, such other costs and charges as may be awarded or levied by the Court.
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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
