Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Maintenance Act 1965 - SECT 16

Further order for payment of medical and like expenses

16. Further order for payment of medical and like expenses



(1) Where the court, upon application made by or on behalf of any person for
whose maintenance an order is for the time being in force under this Part, is
satisfied-

   (a)  that any medical surgical psychiatric dental hospital or nursing care
        or treatment is or was reasonably required to be rendered in respect
        of that person after the commencement of this Part;

   (b)  that the financial position of that person is and has been such as to
        preclude the person from making provision for or towards the cost of
        that care or treatment;

   (c)  that the person against whom the order was made has not made adequate
        provision for or towards that cost and it is just and equitable in all
        the circumstances of the case that he pay or contribute towards that
        cost-

the court may order him to pay for or towards that cost such amount as it
thinks reasonable.

(2) For the purposes of this section-



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   (b)  a person in respect of whom an order under section eighteen of this
        Act for the payment of a merely nominal amount is in force-

shall be deemed to be persons for whose maintenance an order is in force under
this Part.

(3) Where an order is made under this section for the payment of moneys for or
towards the cost of any care or treatment referred to in subsection (1) of
this section the court may, in making the order or at any later time, give
such directions in writing as it thinks proper for the disbursement of the
amount ordered to be paid but so that no moneys are disbursed before the care
or treatment to which the order relates has been rendered.

Division 2-Ancillary and interim orders

Subdivision 1-Orders for custody of children, &c.

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Subdivision 2-Nominal orders