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9 of 2015
The Maintenance Amendment Act 9 of 2015 aims:
- to amend the Maintenance Act, 1998, so as:
- to further regulate the lodging of complaints relating to maintenance and the jurisdiction of maintenance courts;
- to further regulate the investigation of maintenance complaints;
- to further regulate the securing of witnesses for purposes of a maintenance enquiry;
- to further regulate maintenance enquiries in order to make provision for the granting of interim maintenance orders;
- to further regulate the making of maintenance orders;
- to further regulate the making of maintenance orders by consent;
- to further regulate the circumstances in which maintenance orders may be granted by default;
- to further regulate the granting of cost orders; to regulate the effect a maintenance order made by a maintenance court has on a maintenance order made by another court;
- to further regulate the transfer of maintenance orders; to regulate the reporting of a maintenance defaulter to any business which has as its object the granting of credit or is involved in the credit rating of persons;
- to further regulate the attachment of emoluments;
- to increase the penalties for certain offences;
- to create certain new offences;
- to further regulate the conversion of criminal proceedings into maintenance enquiries; and
- to provide for matters connected therewith.
Commencement
5 January 2018, Sections 2, 11, 13(b) (Government Gazette 41352, 21 December 2017)
