Cap. 242 Art. 9Enforcement of maintenance order registered in a Maltese court.

(1) A registered order may be enforced in Malta as if it had been made by the registering court and as if that court had had jurisdiction to make it; and proceedings for or with respect to the enforcement of any such order may be taken accordingly.

(2) Any person for the time being under an obligation to make payments in pursuance of a registered order shall give notice of any change of address to the Registrar, and any person failing without reasonable excuse to give such notice shall be liable on conviction to a fine (multa) not exceeding twenty-three euro and twenty-nine cents (23.29).

(3) In any proceedings for or with respect to the enforcement of an order which is for the time being registered under this Act a certificate of arrears sent to the Registrar shall be evidence of the facts stated therein.

(4) Subject to subarticle (5), sums of money payable under a registered order shall be payable in accordance with the order as from the date on which the order was made.

(5) The court having power under article 8 to confirm a provisional order may, if it decides to confirm the order, direct that the sums of money payable under it shall be deemed to have been payable in accordance with the order as from such date, being a date later than the date on which the order was made, as it may specify; and subject to any such direction, a maintenance order registered under the said article 8 shall be treated as if it had been made in the form in which it was confirmed and as if it had never been a provisional order.