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• Maintenance 
• Citation
  • 1 Short title
• Interpretation
  • 2 Definitions
• PART I Maintenance of children
  • 3 Application of Act
  • 4 Right to maintenance
  • 5 General powers of court in maintenance proceedings
• PART II Institution of maintenance proceedings, etc.
  • 6 Application for maintenance
  • 7 Procedure where application made before birth
  • 8 Procedure where application made after birth
• PART III Powers of Magistrate on the hearing of maintenance applications and related matters
  • 9 Power to adjudge defendant father of child
  • 10 Order for maintenance
  • 11 Power to order sum to be calculated from birth
  • 12 Payments to clerk of court
  • 13 Defense to application
  • 14 Matters to be taken into consideration by court in making order
  • 15 Power to extend duration of orders
  • 16 General powers of court in respect of orders
  • 17 Cessation of orders
  • 18 Duty to inform person making payments
  • 19 Modification of maintenance orders
  • 20 Order for legal custody of child and interference with such a child
  • 21 Payments for children chargeable to the Welfare Department or Child Care Board
  • 22 Application by Chief Welfare Officer or Child Care Board in respect of chargeable children
  • 23 Duty of clerk of court to receive payments and enforce arrears
  • 24 Funeral expenses incurred during currency of order
  • 25 Power of magistrate to direct investigation into the means of the father and the mother
  • 26 Service of summons
  • 27 Register of names and addresses of fathers
  • 28 Maintenance proceedings to be heard separately from other business of the court
• PART IV Miscellaneous
  • 29 Rules
  • 30 Deduction from salary or wages