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Maintenance Act, 1998 (Act No. 99 of 1998)

Chapter 6 : Offences and Penalties

35. Offences relating to maintenance enquiries

 

Any person who wilfully interrupts the proceedings at a maintenance enquiry or who wilfully hinders or obstructs the maintenance court in the performance of the maintenance court's functions at the enquiry shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both a  fine and such imprisonment.

 

[Section 35 substituted by section 14 of Act No. 9 of 2015]