RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT OF MAINTENANCE ORDERS - COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA - ORDER

RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT OF MAINTENANCE

ORDERS - COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 242.02

RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT OF MAINTENANCE

ORDERS - COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA -

ORDER

12th December, 1977

LEGAL NOTICE 154 of 1977.

The title of this Order is Reciprocal Enforcement of

Maintenance Orders - Commonwealth of Australia - Order.

(1) The whole of the territory of the Commonwealth of

Australia is to be considered a reciprocating country, with

reciprocity restricted to the maintenance of a party to a marriage or

of a child of a marriage, for the purposes of the Maintenance

Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act.

(2) The provisions of subarticle (1) shall be subject to the

condition that, in the event of the benefits conferred by the

Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act being applied to

maintenance orders made by the courts of the Commonwealth of

Australia, similar benefits will in that country be applied to

maintenance orders made by the courts of Malta.