s.14Registration of orders and enforcement
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Section 14Part 2 — Duty to Maintain

Registration of orders and enforcement

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Where a maintenance order has, whether before or after the passing of this Law, been made against any person by any court in England or Ireland, and a certified copy of the order has been transmitted to the Governor he shall send a copy of the order to the prescribed officer of a court in the Islands for registration; and on receipt thereof the order shall be registered in the prescribed manner; and shall from the date of such registration, be of the same force and effect, and subject to this Law, all proceedings may be taken on such order as if it had been an order originally obtained in the court in which it is so registered, and that court shall have power to enforce the order accordingly.
The court in which such order is to be registered shall, if the court by which the order was made was a court of superior jurisdiction, be the Grand Court, and, if the court was not a court of superior jurisdiction be a court of summary jurisdiction.
Where a court in the Islands has made a maintenance order against any person, and it is proved to that court that the person against whom the order was made is resident in England or Ireland, the court shall send to the Governor, for transmission to the Secretary of State, a certified copy of the order.

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