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

In this Act, unless the context indicates otherwise—

"court in the Republic"

includes a High Court;

"emoluments"

includes any salary, wages, allowances or any other form of remuneration, whether expressed in money or not;

"financial institution"

means any institution which carries on business as a bank or mutual bank;

"maintenance court"

means a maintenance court as contemplated in section 3;

"maintenance investigator"

means any person who is appointed as a maintenance investigator of a maintenance court under section 5(1);

"maintenance officer"

means any person who is deemed to have been appointed as a maintenance officer in terms of section 4(1)(a) or who is appointed under section 4(2), as the case may be;

"maintenance order"

means any order for the payment, including the periodical payment, of sums of money towards the maintenance of any person issued by any court in the Republic, and includes, except for the purposes of section 31, any sentence suspended on condition that the convicted person make payments of sums of money towards the maintenance of any other person;

"Minister"

means the Minister of Justice;

"prescribed"

means prescribed by regulation made in terms of section 44;

"regulation"

means a regulation made in terms of section 44;

"this Act"

includes a regulation.