South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts105—Where order made during pregnancy
(1) Where an order is
made for payment of, or contribution towards, preliminary expenses during the
pregnancy of the woman, the order must—
(a)
specify a date on which the order will cease to have effect if the woman has
not then been delivered of a child; and
(b)
direct that all money payable for preliminary expenses must be paid to the
Chief Executive Officer.
(2) Where—
(a) the
woman is not delivered of a child before the date specified in the order; or
(b) the
woman is delivered of a stillborn child before the date so specified, and
there is no other surviving child born to the woman during the same
confinement,
the order ceases to have effect on the date specified in the order, or at the
end of the third month after the delivery of the stillborn child, as the case
may require.
(3) Where an order
ceases to have effect on a date specified in it pursuant to the provisions of
subsection (1), any money paid under the order and not disbursed must be
repaid to the defendant.
(4) Where an order
ceases to have effect at the end of the third month after the delivery of a
stillborn child any money paid under the order and not disbursed must, as
directed by the court—
(a) be
paid to the woman; or
(b) be
repaid to the defendant; or
(c) be
divided between the woman and the defendant in such proportions as the court
thinks fit.
(5) Where an order is
made for payment of, or contribution towards, preliminary expenses during the
pregnancy of a woman, the court may, at any time while the order is in force,
give such directions in writing as it thinks proper with respect to the
disbursement of any amounts paid under the order, but not so as to direct the
disbursement, before the woman is delivered of a child or a stillborn child,
of amounts that exceed in aggregate one-half of the amount to be paid under
the order.