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Legislative Enactments BRITISH MAINTENANCE ORDERS Marginal Notes 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance. 2. Interpretation. 3. Enforcement in Ceylon of maintenance orders made in England or Northern Ireland. 4. Transmission of maintenance orders made in Ceylon. 5. Power to make provisional orders of maintenance against persons resident in England or Northern Ireland 6. Power of Magistrate's Court to confirm maintenance order made in England or Northern Ireland. 7. Power of Governor-General to make regulations for facilitating communications between courts. 8. Mode of enforcing orders. 9. Criminal Procedure Code to apply to proceedings under this Ordinance. 10. Proof of documents signed by officers of court. 11. Depositions to be evidence. 12. Reciprocal arrangements with British possessions or protectorates