Separation and Maintenance Orders Ordinance

(1)
The amendments to
sections 2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
7
,
9
and
10
of this Ordinance
                made by
sections 9
,
10
,
11
,
12
,
13
and
15
of the Marriage and Children (Miscellaneous
                Amendments) Ordinance 1997 (
69 of 1997
)
                        (
the
                        amending
                Ordinance
)
                do not apply in relation to orders made before the commencement of the amending
                Ordinance, and the provisions of this Ordinance in force immediately before the
                commencement of the amending Ordinance continue to apply in relation to those orders
                as if the amending Ordinance had not been enacted.
(2)
The amendment adding
section 9A
, and the amendments to
section 12
, of this Ordinance made by
sections 14
and
17
of the amending Ordinance apply in relation to orders made before the commencement of the amending Ordinance as they apply in relation to orders made after that commencement, but where an order made before that commencement provides for payments to be made in respect of a child beyond the date when the child will attain the age of 18, nothing in this subsection shall be construed as affecting the term of such order.
(3)
Section 12(2)
of this Ordinance (as substituted by
section 17
of the amending Ordinance) applies in relation to a child who at the commencement of the amending Ordinance has attained the age of 18 as if reference in that subsection to the age of 18 was a reference to the age of 21.