In Re: Maintenance Orders Enforcemrnt Ordinance; (Miscellaneous Civil Suit No. 23 of 1953) [1954] EACA 94 (1 January 1954)

International Private Law — Comity — Maintenance Orders Enforcement Ordinance (Cap. 16) — Whether reciprocity with Southern Rhodesia — Jurisdiction to register foreign maintenance order — Maintenance order ancillary to decree of divorce — Whether Ordinance appropriate for enforcement —Whether court can enforce order without proof of foreign law — Civil Procedure and Practice — Whether a civil suit — Whether a civil or quasi-criminal proceeding — Whether enforceable by application to execute a decree — Debts (Summary Recovery) Ordinance (Cap. 8), section 12 (1) — Order enforceable as a fine — Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 27), section 331 (1) — Directions as to procedure to enforce order by issue of distress warrant — Maintenance Orders Enforcement Rules, Rule 5 — Appication to appoint person to receive payment — Rules of Court, Part VI, Rule 2 (5) (9) — Application to be by summons in chambers.