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Maintenance and Affiliation (Amendment) Act 1986

FIJI


ACT No. 4 OF 1986


I assent


P. K. GANILAU
Governor-General
20th March 1986


AN ACT
TO AMEND THE MAINTENANCE AND AFFILIATION ACT


[21st March 1986]


ENACTED by the Parliament of Fiji-


Short title


1. This Act may be cited as the Maintenance and Affiliation (Amendment) Act, 1986


Interpretation


2. In this Act, "principal act" means the Maintenance and Affiliation Act.


Powers of Magistrates on hearing of complaint (Amendment of section 18)


3. Section 18 of the principal Act is amended-


(a) by deleting from paragraph (a) of subsection (2) the words "not exceeding five hundred and twenty dollars"; and


(b) by deleting from subsection (4) the words "not exceeding two thousand six hundred dollars".


Variation of order (Amendment of section 20)


4. Section 20 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the words "but the amount shall in no case exceed the maximum sum provided in paragraph (a) of subsection 18".


Passed by the House of Representatives this twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and eighty-six.


Passed by the Senate this nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and eighty-six.


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