Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Maintenance Claims (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act (No. 54 of 1998)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.	   Short title and date of operation  
   2.	   Application of the Act  
   3.	   Application by a person in Sri Lanka for recovery of maintenance or for enforcement or variation of a maintenance orders made in a specified country  
   4.	   Application by persons in specified country for recovery of maintenance in Sri Lanka  
   5.	   Enforcement of an order made in a specified country  
   6.	   Application in respect of an illegitimate child  
   7.	   Transfer of Orders  
   8.	   Enforcement of Orders  
   9.	   Variation of a registered order  
   10.	   power to vary an order not made by the registering court  
   11.	   Admissibility of evidence given in specified country  
   12.	   Obtaining of evidence for purpose of proceedings in Sri Lanka  
   13.	   Taking of evidence at request of Court in specified country  
   14.	   Transitional provision  
   15.	   Savings in respect of applications relating to Muslims  
   16.	   Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistancy  
   17.	   Interpretation