Maintenance Orders Reciprocal Enforcement Act · s 16

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16.
Payment of sums under orders made abroad
(1) Payments of sums due under a registered order shall, while the order is registered in a court in Brunei Darussalam, be made in such manner and to such person as the court may order.
(2) Where the sums required to be paid under a registered order are expressed in a currency other than the currency of Brunei Darussalam, the order shall be treated as if it were an order requiring the payment of such sums in the currency of Brunei Darussalam as, on the basis of the rate of exchange prevailing at the relevant 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 due under a maintenance order made by a court in a reciprocating country, is expressed in a currency other than the currency of Brunei
Darussalam, that sum is deemed to be such sum in the currency of Brunei
Darussalam 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 Brunei Darussalam certifying that -
(a) a specified rate of exchange prevailed between currencies at a specified date; and

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(b)
at such rate a specified sum in the currency of Brunei
Darussalam 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, "relevant date" 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 a court in Brunei
Darussalam; and
(3) in relation to a registered order which has been varied, the date on which the last order varying that order is registered in a court in
Brunei Darussalam or (if earlier) the date on which the last order varying that order is confirmed by such a court.

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s 16Payment of sums under orders made abroad

(1)

Payments of sums due under a registered order shall, while the order is registered in a court in Brunei Darussalam, be made in such manner and to such person as the court may order.

(2)

Where the sums required to be paid under a registered order are expressed in a currency other than the currency of Brunei Darussalam, the order shall be treated as if it were an order requiring the payment of such sums in the currency of Brunei Darussalam as, on the basis of the rate of exchange prevailing at the relevant 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 due under a maintenance order made by a court in a reciprocating country, is expressed in a currency other than the currency of Brunei

Darussalam, that sum is deemed to be such sum in the currency of Brunei

Darussalam 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 Brunei Darussalam certifying that -

(a)

a specified rate of exchange prevailed between currencies at a specified date; and

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(b)

at such rate a specified sum in the currency of Brunei

Darussalam 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, "relevant date" 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 a court in Brunei

Darussalam; and

(3)

in relation to a registered order which has been varied, the date on which the last order varying that order is registered in a court in

Brunei Darussalam or (if earlier) the date on which the last order varying that order is confirmed by such a court.