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Maintenance Claims (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act (No. 54 of 1998) - Sect 10

power to vary an order not made by the registering court

10.
(1) Where a registered order is registered in a court other than the court by which the order was made, the registering court shall have the power to vary or revoke the order as if it had been made by the registering court and as if that court had jurisdiction to make it.
(2) Where the registering court revokes a registered order it shall cancel the registration.
(3) Where the respondent to an application for the variation or revocation of a registered order, does not appear at the time and place appointed for the hearing of the application, but the court is satisfied"
(a) that the respondent is residing outside Sri Lanka; and
(b) that adequate notice of the making of the application and of the time and place aforesaid has been given to the respondent,
(4) Where a Magistrates Court makes or refuses to make an order varying or revoking a registered order made by another Magistrate Court, an aggrieved person shall have the right of appeal against the order or refusal as he would have if the registered order had been made by the first mentioned court.


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