Section 4: Registration of maintenance orders] — Maintenance Orders Enforcement Act, 1921

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4[4. Registration of maintenance orders].___(1) Where a maintenance order has, whether before or after the passing of this Act, been made against any person by any Court in any reciprocating territory, and a certified copy of the order has been transmitted by the proper authority of that territory to the 5[Federal Government], the 6[Federal Government] shall send a copy of the order to the prescribed officer of a Court in 7[Pakistan] for registration, and, on receipt thereof, the order shall be registered in the prescribed manner. (2) The Court in which an order is to be so registered as aforesaid shall, if the Court by which the order was made was, in the opinion of the 6[Federal Government], a Court of superior jurisdiction, be a High Court, and, if the Court was not, to 8[its] opinion, a Court of superior jurisdiction, be a Court of summary jurisdiction.

Effective date: 1921-01-01

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