Maintenance Orders Reciprocal Enforcement Act · s 8

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8.
Enforcement of maintenance order
(1) A registered order may be enforced in Brunei Darussalam as if it had been made by the registering court and as if that court had jurisdiction to make it; and proceedings for or with respect to the enforcement of any such order may be taken accordingly.
(2) Any person for the time being under an obligation to make payments in pursuance of a registered order shall give notice of any change of address to the registering court.
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(3) Any person failing without reasonable excuse to give a notice under subsection (2) is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000.

Maintenance Orders 14 CAP.
Reciprocal Enforcement
(4) The court by which an order is enforceable by virtue of this section shall take all necessary steps for enforcing the order.
(5) In any proceedings for the enforcement of an order which is for the time being registered in any court under this Act, a certificate of arrears sent to the court shall be evidence of the facts stated therein.
(6) Subject to subsection (7). sums of money payable under a registered order shall be payable in accordance with the order as from the date on which the order was made.
(7) The court having power under section 7 to confirm a provisional order may, if it decides to confirm the order, direct that the sums of money payable under the order is deemed to have been payable in accordance with the order as from such date, being a date later than the date on which the order was made, as it may specify.
(8) Subject to any direction under subsection (7), a maintenance order registered under section 7 shall be treated as if it had been made in the form in which it was confirmed and as if it had never been a provisional order.

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s 8Enforcement of maintenance order

(1)

A registered order may be enforced in Brunei Darussalam as if it had been made by the registering court and as if that court had jurisdiction to make it; and proceedings for or with respect to the enforcement of any such order may be taken accordingly.

(2)

Any person for the time being under an obligation to make payments in pursuance of a registered order shall give notice of any change of address to the registering court.

(3)

Any person failing without reasonable excuse to give a notice under subsection (2) is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000.

Maintenance Orders 14 CAP.

Reciprocal Enforcement

(4)

The court by which an order is enforceable by virtue of this section shall take all necessary steps for enforcing the order.

(5)

In any proceedings for the enforcement of an order which is for the time being registered in any court under this Act, a certificate of arrears sent to the court shall be evidence of the facts stated therein.

(6)

Subject to subsection (7). sums of money payable under a registered order shall be payable in accordance with the order as from the date on which the order was made.

(7)

The court having power under section 7 to confirm a provisional order may, if it decides to confirm the order, direct that the sums of money payable under the order is deemed to have been payable in accordance with the order as from such date, being a date later than the date on which the order was made, as it may specify.

(8)

Subject to any direction under subsection (7), a maintenance order registered under section 7 shall be treated as if it had been made in the form in which it was confirmed and as if it had never been a provisional order.