Maintenance Act, 1998 (Act No. 99 of 1998)Chapter 3 : Maintenance EnquiriesComplaints and Investigations6. Complaints relating to maintenance |
| (1) | Whenever a complaint to the effect— |
| (a) | that any person legally liable to maintain any other person fails to maintain the latter person; |
| (b) | that good cause exists for the substitution or discharge of a maintenance order, or |
| (c) | that good cause exists for the substitution or discharge of a verbal or written agreement in respect of maintenance obligations in which respect there is no existing maintenance order, |
has been made and is lodged with a maintenance officer in the prescribed manner, the maintenance officer shall investigate that complaint in the prescribed manner and as provided in this Act.
| (2) | After investigating the complaint, the maintenance officer may institute an enquiry in the maintenance court within the area of jurisdiction in which the person to be maintained, or the person in whose care the person to be maintained is, resides, carries on business or is employed with a view to enquiring into the provision of maintenance for the person so to be maintained. |
[Section 6 substituted by section 1 of Act No. 9 of 2015]