means any person appointed under section 7(1) or deemed to have been “maintenance officer” appointed under section 7(3); means a maintenance order made under section 17, a consent order made “maintenance order” under section 18 and a default maintenance order made under section 19, or a maintenance order made by a maintenance court under any other law and includes any sentence suspended on condition that the convicted person makes payments of sums of money towards the maintenance of any other person; means expenses incurred in respect of medical, dental, psychiatric and “medical expenses” psychological services rendered to any person and includes any pharmaceutical services given on prescription by a person authorised by law to make those prescriptions and “medical has a corresponding meaning; services” of the means a messenger of the “messenger court” magistrate’s court; means the Minister responsible for Justice; “Minister” means prescribed by regulation made under this Act; “prescribed” means - “primary caretaker” (a) a person, other than a parent or other custodian of a child, whether or not related to the child, who; or (b) any institution which; takes primary responsibility for the daily care of a child with or without the express or implied permission of the parent or other custodian; child’s and its derivatives, means register in the prescribed register as contemplated in “register” section 27; includes the regulations. “this Act” [There is a full stop rather than a semicolon after this definition, even though there is one more definition which follows.] for the purposes of this Act means any person summoned or requested to give “witness” evidence at a maintenance enquiry and includes the complainant and defendant. PART II Legal duty to maintain 2. This Act - (a) applies where a person has a legal duty to maintain another person, regardless of the nature of the relationship which creates the duty to maintain; and (b) must not be interpreted so as to derogate from the law relating to the duty of persons to maintain other persons. Parental duty to maintain children
“maintenance officer” means any person appointed under section 7(1) or deemed to have been appointed under section 7(3); “maintenance order” means a maintenance order made under section 17, a consent order made under section 18 and a default maintenance order made under section 19, or a maintenance order made by a maintenance court under any other law and includes any sentence suspended on condition that the convicted person makes payments of sums of money towards the maintenance of any other person; “medical expenses” means expenses incurred in respect of medical, dental, psychiatric and psychological services rendered to any person and includes any pharmaceutical services given on prescription by a person authorised by law to make those prescriptions and “medical services” has a corresponding meaning; “messenger of the court” means a messenger of the magistrate’s court; “Minister” means the Minister responsible for Justice; “prescribed” means prescribed by regulation made under this Act; “primary caretaker” means - (a) a person, other than a parent or other custodian of a child, whether or not related to the child, who; or (b) any institution which; takes primary responsibility for the daily care of a child with or without the express or implied permission of the child’s parent or other custodian; “register” and its derivatives, means register in the prescribed register as contemplated in section 27; “this Act” includes the regulations. [There is a full stop rather than a semicolon after this definition, even though there is one more definition which follows.] “witness” for the purposes of this Act means any person summoned or requested to give evidence at a maintenance enquiry and includes the complainant and defendant. PART II Legal duty to maintain 2. This Act - (a) applies where a person has a legal duty to maintain another person, regardless of the nature of the relationship which creates the duty to maintain; and (b) must not be interpreted so as to derogate from the law relating to the duty of persons to maintain other persons. Parental duty to maintain children