maintenance order definition

maintenance order. , in relation to a court, means an order made by a court —
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;
maintenance order means an order made by a court for payment of money by any near relative in respect of the maintenance of a child;

More Definitions of maintenance order

maintenance order means any order for the periodical payment by any person of sums of money towards the maintenance of any other person whom the first-mentioned person is liable to maintain in accordance with the law of the country in which the order is made;
maintenance order means a judgment relating to maintenance;
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;
maintenance order means an order, other than an order of affiliation, for the periodical payment of sums of money towards the maintenance of the wife or other dependants of the person against whom the order is made;
maintenance order means an order of a prescribed kind for the making or securing of periodical payments to or for the benefit of a child; and
maintenance order means an order under section 2 of that Act.
maintenance order means an order, other than an order of affiliation, for the periodic payment of sums of money towards the maintenance of the wife or other dependants of the person against whom the order is made, and includes an order or decree for the recovery or repayment of the cost of public relief or maintenance;