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s.9
Power to order interim payments where application for maintenance is adjourned
Subject to subsection (2), where, on the hearing of an application for an order under this Ordinance for maintenance or for maintenance and education, the application is adjourned for a period exceeding 1 week, the District Court may order the respondent to pay to the applicant or to the Registrar of the District Court or any third person on the applicant’s behalf such periodical payments as the court considers reasonable for the maintenance of the applicant and the maintenance and education of any child or children in the applicant’s custody until the final determination of the application.