Cap. 48 Art. 13Provision for transmission of maintenance orders.

(1) The President of Malta may by order -

(a) name a person in lieu of himself as the person by whom maintenance orders may be transmitted to, and to whom maintenance orders may be transmitted by, the Governor of any part of Her Majesty’s Dominions outside England and Northern Ireland named in the order (or, where there is in force an order under this article naming a person in lieu of the Governor of that part of Her Majesty’s Dominions as aforesaid, that person); and

(b) name a person, in lieu of the Governor of any part of Her Majesty’s Dominions outside England and Northern Ireland named in the order, as the person to whom maintenance orders may be transmitted by, and by whom maintenance orders may be transmitted to, the President of Malta (or, where there is in force in respect of that part of Her Majesty’s Dominions as aforesaid an order under paragraph (a) of this subarticle, the officer named in that order).

(2) An order under subarticle (1) may name a person by reference to the public office which he holds and such an order shall be deemed to name all persons successively holding that office while the order remains in force and shall be of force accordingly.

(3) Any person purporting to act in any office by reference to which a person is named in an order under this article shall be presumed duly to hold that office until the contrary is proved.

(b) any maintenance order transmitted by or to a person named in an order under article (1)(b) shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed to have been transmitted to or by the Governor of that part of Her Majesty’s Dominions outside England and Northern Ireland named in that order.

(5) In this article the term "maintenance order" includes a provisional maintenance order.