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

Regulations Relating to Maintenance

Chapter 4 : Offences and Orders relating to Prosecutions

23. Recovery of arrear maintenance

 

1) The clerk of the court shall submit a certified copy of an order made by the court in terms of section 40 of the Act to the clerk of the civil court for registration of such order.

 

2) The clerk of the civil court shall—
a) register the order referred to in subregulation (1) by numbering it with the following consecutive case number for the year during which it is registered; and
b) inform the maintenance officer of the maintenance court where the maintenance order was made and the person in whose favour the order was made of the registration and the number of the case.

 

3) The provisions of the Act relating to civil execution shall, with the necessary changes, apply in respect of the execution of an order referred to in subregulation (1).