BNSS 147 — Enforcement of order of maintenance.

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

A  copy  of  the  order  of  maintenance  or  interim
maintenance and expenses of proceedings, as the case may be, shall be given without payment to the person
in  whose favour  it  is  made,  or  to  his  guardian,  if  any,  or  to  the  person  to  whom  the  allowance  for  the
maintenance or the allowance for the interim maintenance and expenses of proceeding, as the case may be,
is  to  be  paid; and  such  order  may  be  enforced by  any  Magistrate  in  any  place  where  the  person  against
whom  it  is  made  may  be,  on  such  Magistrate  being  satisfied as  to  the  identity  of  the  parties  and  the
non-payment of the allowance, or as the case may be, expenses, due.

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