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MAINTENANCE ORDERS (FACILITIES FOR ENFORCEMENT) ACT 1920 - SECT 3

Power to make provisional orders of maintenance against persons resident in His Majesty's dominions outside the United Kingdom.

3.(1) Where an application is made to a court of summary jurisdiction in...
Ireland for a maintenance order against any person, and it is proved that that
person is resident in a part of His Majesty's dominions outside the United
Kingdom to which this Act extends, the court may, in the absence of that
person, if after hearing the evidence it is satisfied of the justice of the
application, make any such order as it might have made if a summons had been
duly served on that person and he had failed to appear at the hearing, but in
such case the order shall be provisional only, and shall have no effect unless
and until confirmed by a competent court in such part of His Majesty's
dominions as aforesaid.

(2) The evidence of any witness who is examined on any such application shall
be put into writing, and such deposition shall be read over to and signed by
him.

(3) Where such an order is made, the court shall send to the Secretary of
State for transmission to the governor of the part of His Majesty's dominions
in which the person against whom the order is made is alleged to reside the
depositions so taken and a certified copy of the order, together with a
statement of the grounds on which the making of the order might have been
opposed if the person against whom the order is made had been duly served with
a summons and had appeared at the hearing, and such information as the court
possesses for facilitating the identification of that person, and ascertaining
his whereabouts.

(4) Where any such provisional order has come before a court in a part of His
Majesty's dominions outside the United Kingdom to which this Act extends for
confirmation, and the order has by that court been remitted to the court of
summary jurisdiction which made the order for the purpose of taking further
evidence, that court or any other court of summary jurisdiction sitting and
acting for the same place shall, after giving the prescribed notice, proceed
to take the evidence in like manner and subject to the like conditions as the
evidence in support of the original application.

If upon the hearing of such evidence it appears to the court that the order
ought not to have been made, the court may rescind the order, but in any other
case the depositions shall be sent to the Secretary of State and dealt with in
like manner as the original depositions.

(5) The confirmation of an order made under this section shall not affect any
power of a court of summary jurisdiction to vary or rescind that order:
Provided that on the making of a varying or rescinding order the court shall
send a certified copy thereof to the Secretary of State for transmission to
the governor of the part of His Majesty's dominions in which the original
order was confirmed, and that in the case of an order varying the original
order the order shall not have any effect unless and until confirmed in like
manner as the original order.

(6) The applicant shall have the same right of appeal, if any, against a
refusal to make a provisional order as he would have had against a refusal to
make the order had a summons been duly served on the person against whom the
order is sought to be made.

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