Maintenance Orders Act 🇳🇬
Nigeria
Maintenance Orders Act
- Published in Official Gazette supplement
- Commenced on 23 June 1921
- [This is the version of this document from 23 June 1921.]
- [Note: The original publication document is not available and this content could not be verified.]
1. Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-"dependants" means such persons as any other person is, according to the law in force in England and Ireland, if the order is made in England or Ireland, or in Nigeria, if the order is made in Nigeria, liable to maintain;"maintenance order" means an order other than an order of affiliation for the periodical payment of sums of money towards the maintenance of the wife or other dependants of the person against whom the order is made, and in respect of Ireland, includes an order or decree for the recovery or repayment of the cost of relief or maintenance made by virtue of …Read the Full Legislation on judy.legal
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