Section 2
Interpretation
of Maintenance Orders Reciprocal Enforcement Act
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -
"affiliation order" means an order (however described) adjudging, finding or declaring a person to be the father of a child, whether or not it also provides for maintenance of the child;
"certificate of arrears", in relation to a maintenance order, means a certificate certifying that the sum specified in the certificate is to the information or belief of the officer giving the certificate the amount of the arrears due under the order at the date of the certificate;
"certified copy", in relation to an order of court, means a copy of the order certified by the proper officer of the court to be a true copy;
"court" includes any tribunal or person having power to make, confirm, enforce, vary or revoke a maintenance order;
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"maintenance order" means an order (however described) of the following descriptions -
(a)
an order (including an affiliation order or order consequent upon an affiliation order) which provides for the periodical payment of sums of money towards the maintenance of any person, being a person to whom the person liable to make payments under the order is, according to the law applied in the place where the order was made, liable to maintain; and
(b)
an affiliation order or order consequent upon an affiliation order, being an order which provides for the payment by a person adjudged, found or declared to be a child's father of expenses incidental to the child's birth or. where the child had died, of his funeral expenses, and in the case of a maintenance order which has been varied, means that order as varied;
"payee", in relation to a maintenance order. means the person entitled to the payments for which the order provides;
"payer", in relation to a maintenance order, means the person liable to make payments under the order;
"provisional order" means (according to the context) -
(a)
an order made by a court in Brunei Darussalam which is provisional only and has no effect unless confirmed, with or without alteration, by a competent court in a reciprocating country; or
(b)
an order made by a court in a reciprocating country which is provisional only and has no effect unless confirmed, with or without alteration, by a court in Brunei Darussalam having power under this Act to confirm it;
"reciprocating country" has the meaning assigned to it by section 17;
"registered order" means a maintenance order which is for the time being registered in a court in Brunei Darussalam under this Act;
"registering court", in relation to a registered order, means the court in which that order is for the time being registered under this
Act;
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"responsible authority", in relation to a reciprocating country, means any person who in that country has functions similar to those of the Attorney General under this Act.