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

Chapter 8 : General and Supplementary Provisions

46. Transitional arrangements in respect of execution of maintenance or other orders

 

Until such time as regulations relating to the execution of maintenance or other orders of maintenance courts made under section 44(1)(d) or (e) come into operation, the provisions—

(a) of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1944 (Act No. 32 of 1944), relating to the execution of any judgment or order of a magistrate's court; or
(b) of the rules made under section 6 of the Rules Board for Courts of Law Act, 1985 (Act No. 107 of 1985), in respect thereof,

shall, in so far as those provisions are not inconsistent with this Act or are not otherwise clearly inappropriate, apply in respect of the execution of maintenance or other orders of maintenance courts as if those provisions had been made under the said section 44(1)(d) or (e), and any execution of any maintenance or other order of a maintenance court commenced under those provisions immediately before the coming into operation of the said regulations shall continue and be disposed of under those provisions.