Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Maintenance Act 1965 - SECT 45

Court may order mode of payment

45. Court may order mode of payment



(1) Upon the making of a commitment order under this subdivision or at any
time thereafter the court may order that any amount due under the maintenance
order be paid forthwith or within such time or by such instalments as the
court allows and may from time to time allow further time for the payment of
any amount due or of any instalment or may vary any amount previously ordered
to be paid under the commitment order.

(2) Where a defendant has at any time been ordered, whether under this
Subdivision or under Part VI of the Maintenance Act 1958, to pay any amount
due under a maintenance order within a specified time or by instalments and
the defendant fails to make payment thereof within the time specified or to
pay any such instalment the whole amount due under the order of imprisonment
and not paid shall become due and payable forthwith and without any further or
other authority than this subsection a warrant to imprison shall be issued in
respect of the amount so due and payable and shall be executed upon the
defendant.