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Part II · Enforcement of Order for Maintenance

12. Attendance of respondent and witnesses

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

The Magistrate may proceed in the manner provided in Chapter V and VI of the Code of Criminal

Procedure Act, No, 15 of 1979 to compel the attendance of the person against whom the application is made and of any person required by the applicant or the person against whom the application is made or by the Magistrate to give evedence, and the production of any document necessary, for the purposes of the inquiry.

Proceedings in absence of respondent.

(2)

When the person against whom the application is made is absent, the provisions of section 192 of the Code of Criminal

Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979 shall, mutatis mutandis,apply.

Read on from s 13

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