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Maintenance Act 1965
sec.134Appeals
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### sec.134 Appeals
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the provisions of the Justices Act 1886 , part 9 , relating to appeals from the decisions of justices, shall extend and apply to and with respect to all proceedings under this Act.
Where an appeal is made pursuant to subsection (1) against an order directing the payment of moneys or against an order varying such an order, the court to which the appeal is made may stay the order and, if it thinks fit, in addition may make a temporary order to take effect during the pendency of the appeal.
A court making a temporary order under subsection (2) may exercise all the powers of the court that made the stayed order.
A temporary order made under subsection (2) may, upon service of a copy thereof upon the clerk of the court that made the order appealed against, be enforced in the same manner in all respects as if it were a final order, but shall not be subject to appeal, nor, except by the court by which it was made, to discharge, suspension, or variation.
Where an order has been made under section 16 for the benefit of a pregnant woman, and the defendant in the defendant’s notice of appeal requests that the appeal be not heard before the birth of the child, the appeal court may, in its discretion, order that the appeal be adjourned to the first sittings of the appeal court to be held after a period of 1 month after the birth of the child or to any subsequent sittings of the court.
At the request of either party to an appeal against a decision a complaint made on behalf of a child, the child shall be produced in court.
(sec.134-ssec.1) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the provisions of the Justices Act 1886 , part 9 , relating to appeals from the decisions of justices, shall extend and apply to and with respect to all proceedings under this Act.
(sec.134-ssec.2) Where an appeal is made pursuant to subsection (1) against an order directing the payment of moneys or against an order varying such an order, the court to which the appeal is made may stay the order and, if it thinks fit, in addition may make a temporary order to take effect during the pendency of the appeal.
(sec.134-ssec.3) A court making a temporary order under subsection (2) may exercise all the powers of the court that made the stayed order.
(sec.134-ssec.4) A temporary order made under subsection (2) may, upon service of a copy thereof upon the clerk of the court that made the order appealed against, be enforced in the same manner in all respects as if it were a final order, but shall not be subject to appeal, nor, except by the court by which it was made, to discharge, suspension, or variation.
(sec.134-ssec.5) Where an order has been made under section 16 for the benefit of a pregnant woman, and the defendant in the defendant’s notice of appeal requests that the appeal be not heard before the birth of the child, the appeal court may, in its discretion, order that the appeal be adjourned to the first sittings of the appeal court to be held after a period of 1 month after the birth of the child or to any subsequent sittings of the court.
(sec.134-ssec.6) At the request of either party to an appeal against a decision a complaint made on behalf of a child, the child shall be produced in court.