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Maintenance Act, 1998 (Act No. 99 of 1998)

Chapter 7 : Orders Relating to Prosecutions

41. Conversion of criminal proceedings into maintenance enquiry

 

If during the course of any proceedings in a magistrate's court in respect of—

(a) an offence referred to in section 31(1); or
(b) the enforcement of any sentence suspended on condition that the convicted person make periodical payments of sums of money towards the maintenance of any other person,

it appears on good cause shown that it is desirable that a maintenance enquiry be held, the court may, of its own accord or at the request of the public prosecutor, convert the proceedings into such enquiry.

 

[Section 41 substituted by section 18 of Act No. 9 of 2015]