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188 PDFTitle:MAINTENANCE ORDERS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT) ORDINANCEGazette Number:
Section:13Heading:AppealsVersion Date:30/06/1997

(1) No appeal shall lie from a provisional order made in pursuance of this Ordinance by a court in Hong Kong. (Amended 61 of 1981 s. 6)
(2) Where in pursuance of this Ordinance a court in Hong Kong confirms or refuses to confirm a provisional order made by a court in a reciprocating country, whether a maintenance order or an order varying or revoking a maintenance order, the payer or payee under the maintenance order shall have the like right of appeal from the confirmation of, or refusal to confirm, the provisional order as he would have if that order were not a provisional order and such court in Hong Kong had made or, as the case may be, refused to make it. (Amended 61 of 1981 s. 6)
(3) Where in pursuance of this Ordinance the District Court makes, or refused to make, an order varying or revoking a maintenance order made by a court in a reciprocating country, then, subject to subsection (1), the payer or payee under the maintenance order shall have the like right of appeal from that order or from the refusal to make it as he would have if the maintenance order had been made by the District Court.
(4) Nothing in this section except subsection (1) shall be construed as affecting any right of appeal conferred by any other enactment.

[cf. 1972 c. 18 s. 12 U.K.]