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S.M. 2001, c. 33
The minister may designate a court or courts in Manitoba for the purpose of proceedings under this Act.
This Part applies only where there is no support order in effect requiring the respondent to pay support for the claimant or for any children for whom support is claimed or for both.
If a claimant is ordinarily resident in Manitoba and believes that the respondent is ordinarily resident in a reciprocating jurisdiction, the claimant may start a process in Manitoba that could result in a support order being made in the reciprocating jurisdiction.
To start the process, the claimant must complete a support application that includes the following:
The claimant is not required to notify the respondent that a process has been started under this section.
The claimant must submit the support application to the designated authority in Manitoba, accompanied by a certified translation if required by the appropriate authority in the reciprocating jurisdiction in which the claimant believes the respondent is ordinarily resident.
On receiving a support application, the designated authority must
On receiving a request for further information or documents from a reciprocating jurisdiction under an enactment in that jurisdiction that corresponds to clause 10(2)(a), the claimant must, in accordance with the regulations, provide the further information or documents within the time referred to in the request.
On receiving a certified copy of an order and reasons, if any, from a reciprocating jurisdiction under an enactment in that jurisdiction that corresponds to section 15, the designated authority must, in accordance with the regulations, provide a copy of the order and reasons, if any, to the claimant and the Manitoba court.
Where the respondent is ordinarily resident in a reciprocating jurisdiction that requires a provisional order, the Manitoba court may, on application by a claimant and without notice to and in the absence of a respondent, make a provisional order taking into account the specific statutory or other legal authority on which the claimant's application for support is based.
Evidence in proceedings under subsection (1) may be given orally, in writing or as the court may allow.
If a provisional order is made, the designated authority must send to the reciprocating jurisdiction
If, during a proceeding for confirmation of a provisional order, a court in a reciprocating jurisdiction remits a matter back for further evidence to the Manitoba court that made the provisional order, the Manitoba court must, after giving notice to the claimant, receive further evidence.
If evidence is received under subsection (4), a proper officer of the Manitoba court must forward to the court in the reciprocating jurisdiction a certified copy of the evidence with modifications, if any, to the provisional order as the Manitoba court considers appropriate.
If a provisional order made under this section comes before a court in a reciprocating jurisdiction and confirmation is denied in respect of one or more persons for whom support is sought, the Manitoba court that made the provisional order may, on application within six months after the denial of confirmation, re-open the matter, receive further evidence and make a new provisional order for a person in respect of whom confirmation was denied.
In this Division, "support application" means
If the designated authority receives a support application from an appropriate authority in a reciprocating jurisdiction, with information that the respondent named in the support application ordinarily resides in Manitoba, the designated authority must serve on the respondent, in accordance with the regulations,
If the designated authority has not served the respondent in accordance with subsection (1) and knows or believes that the respondent is ordinarily resident in another reciprocating jurisdiction in Canada, the designated authority
If the designated authority
Where a support application comes before a Manitoba court, the Manitoba court in making an order must consider
If the Manitoba court requires further information or documents from the claimant to make a support order, the Manitoba court
If the information or documents requested under subsection (2) are not received by the Manitoba court within 18 months from the date of the request, the Manitoba court may dismiss the support application and terminate an interim support order made under clause (2)(b).
The dismissal of a support application under subsection (3) does not preclude the claimant from commencing a new support application.
If the parentage of a child is in issue and has not previously been determined, the Manitoba court may decide that issue.
Subject to subsection (3), a determination of parentage under this section has effect only for the purposes of support proceedings under this Act.
The Manitoba court may make a determination of parentage that has the same effect as a declaratory order made under section 19 or 20 of The Family Maintenance Act
With respect to entitlement to support for a child, the Manitoba court must first apply the law of the jurisdiction in which the child is ordinarily resident, but if under that law the child is not entitled to support, the Manitoba court must apply the law of Manitoba.
In deciding the amount of support to be paid for a child, the Manitoba court must apply the law of Manitoba.
With respect to the entitlement to and the amount of support for the claimant, the Manitoba court must apply the law of Manitoba, but if under the law of Manitoba the claimant is not entitled to support, the Manitoba court must apply the law of the jurisdiction in which the claimant and the respondent last maintained a common habitual residence.
On the conclusion of a hearing, the Manitoba court may, in respect of a claimant or a child, or both
The Manitoba court may make a support order that is retroactive.
A support order may require support to be paid in periodic payments or as a lump sum, or both.
If the Manitoba court refuses to make a support order, the Manitoba court must give reasons for its order.
If the respondent does not appear as required in the notice or does not provide the information or documents required under clause 9(1)(b), the Manitoba court may make an order in the absence of the respondent or of the information or documents and in making the order may draw any inference it considers appropriate.
Where the respondent does not appear as required, the Manitoba court must, in accordance with the regulations, send a copy of the order to the respondent.
The designated authority must, as soon as practicable, forward a certified copy of an order under this Division and reasons, if any, to the appropriate authority in the reciprocating jurisdiction that forwarded the claimant's support application.
To register an extra-provincial order or a foreign order, the order must be forwarded to the designated authority in Manitoba.
On receiving a certified copy of an extra-provincial order or a foreign order, the designated authority in Manitoba must forward a copy of the order in accordance with the regulations to the Manitoba court.
On receiving an extra-provincial order or foreign order, the Manitoba court must register the order as an order of that court.
On being registered, the extra-provincial order or foreign order
After the registration of a foreign order under section 18, the designated authority must, in accordance with the regulations, notify any party to the order believed to be ordinarily resident in Manitoba of the registration of the order.
A party to the order may apply to the Manitoba court to set aside the registration of the foreign order within 30 days after receiving notice of the registration of the foreign order and on giving notice in accordance with the regulations.
On an application under subsection (2), the Manitoba court may
If the Manitoba court sets aside the registration, it must give reasons for its decision.
For the purposes of subclause (3)(b)(iii), a court has jurisdiction
Notice of a decision or order of the Manitoba court must, in accordance with the regulations, be given to the parties and the designated authority.
If the registration of a foreign order is set aside, the foreign order received under this Part must, at the request of the party applying to register the order, be dealt with in accordance with Part 1, Division 2 or Part 3, Division 2, as the case may be, as if the foreign order were a document corresponding to a support application received under subsection 9(1) or a support variation application received under subsection 29(1).
If the foreign order does not contain the necessary information or documents required for a support application, the designated authority must request from the appropriate authority of the reciprocating jurisdiction in which the foreign order was made the necessary information and documents and until the required information and documents are provided to the designated authority, no proceedings under Part 1, Division 2, or Part 3, Division 2, as the case may be, may continue.
If a foreign order that has been registered and filed in accordance with section 18 refers to an amount of support that is not expressed in Canadian currency, the conversion of the amount into Canadian currency must be determined by the designated authority in accordance with the regulations.
If a foreign order or other document is written in a language other than English or French, the order or document must be accompanied by a translation of the order or document into the English or French language.
A translation required under subsection (1) must be authenticated as being accurate by a certificate of the translator.
If an applicant is ordinarily resident in Manitoba and believes that the respondent is ordinarily resident in a reciprocating jurisdiction, the applicant may start a process in Manitoba that could result in the variation of a support order being made in the reciprocating jurisdiction.
To start the process, the applicant must complete a support variation application that includes the following:
The applicant is not required to notify the respondent that a process has been started under this section.
The applicant must submit the support variation application to the designated authority in Manitoba, accompanied by a certified translation if required by the appropriate authority in the reciprocating jurisdiction in which the applicant believes the respondent is ordinarily resident.
On receiving a support variation application, the designated authority must
On receiving a request for further information or documents from a reciprocating jurisdiction under an enactment in that jurisdiction that corresponds to clause 30(2)(a), the applicant must, in accordance with the regulations, provide the further information or documents within the time referred to in the request.
On receiving a certified copy of an order and reasons, if any, from a reciprocating jurisdiction under an enactment in that jurisdiction that corresponds to section 34, the designated authority must, in accordance with the regulations, provide a copy of the order and reasons, if any, to the applicant and the Manitoba court.
Where the respondent is ordinarily resident in a reciprocating jurisdiction that requires a provisional order of variation, the Manitoba court may, on application by an applicant and without notice to and in the absence of a respondent, make a provisional order of variation taking into account the specific statutory or other legal authority on which the applicant's application for variation is based.
If a provisional order of variation is made, the designated authority must send to the reciprocating jurisdiction
If, during a proceeding for confirmation of a provisional order of variation, a court in a reciprocating jurisdiction remits a matter back for further evidence to the Manitoba court that made the provisional order of variation, the Manitoba court must, after giving notice to the applicant, receive further evidence.
If evidence is received under subsection (4), a proper officer of the Manitoba court must forward to the court in the reciprocating jurisdiction a certified copy of the evidence with modifications, if any, to the provisional order of variation as the Manitoba court considers appropriate.
If a provisional order of variation made under this section comes before a court in a reciprocating jurisdiction and confirmation is denied in respect of one or more persons for whom support is sought, the Manitoba court that made the provisional order of variation may, on application within six months after the denial of confirmation, re-open the matter, receive further evidence and make a new provisional order of variation for a person in respect of whom confirmation was denied.
In this Division, "support variation application" means
If the designated authority receives a support variation application from an appropriate authority in a reciprocating jurisdiction, with information that the respondent named in the support variation application ordinarily resides in Manitoba, the designated authority must serve on the respondent, in accordance with the regulations,
Where a support variation application comes before a Manitoba court, the Manitoba court in making an order must consider
If the Manitoba court requires further information or documents from the applicant to make a support variation order, the Manitoba court
If the information or documents requested under subsection (2) are not received by the Manitoba court within 18 months from the date of the request, the Manitoba court may dismiss the support variation application and terminate an interim support variation order made under clause (2)(b).
The dismissal of a support variation application under subsection (3) does not preclude the applicant from commencing a new support variation application.
With respect to entitlement to receive or to continue to receive support for a child, the Manitoba court must first apply the law of the jurisdiction in which the child is ordinarily resident, but if under that law the child is not entitled to support, the court must apply the law of Manitoba.
In deciding the amount of support to be paid for a child, the Manitoba court must apply the law of the jurisdiction where the person liable to pay the support is ordinarily resident.
With respect to the entitlement of a party other than a child to continue to receive support and the amount of that support, the Manitoba court must apply the law of Manitoba, but if under the law of Manitoba the party is not entitled to support, the Manitoba court must apply
On the conclusion of a hearing, the Manitoba court may, in respect of a party or a child, or both,
The Manitoba court may make a support variation order that is retroactive.
A support variation order may require support to be paid in periodic payments or as a lump sum or both.
If the Manitoba court refuses to make a support variation order, the Manitoba court must give reasons for its order.
If a respondent does not appear as required in the notice or does not provide the information or documents required under clause 29(1)(b), the Manitoba court may make an order in the absence of the respondent or of the information or documents and in making the order may draw any inference it considers appropriate.
The designated authority must, as soon as practicable, forward a certified copy of an order under this Division and reasons, if any, to the appropriate authority in the reciprocating jurisdiction in which the applicant is ordinarily resident and if the support order was originally made in another reciprocating jurisdiction, to the appropriate authority in that jurisdiction.
The Manitoba court, after taking into account any right of a government or agency of a government under section 39, may vary a support order registered in Manitoba under Part 2 or a former Act
The Family Maintenance Act applies for the purposes of varying a support order under the circumstances referred to in subsection (1), as if the order being varied was an order for support under that Act.
Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a party to a proceeding under this Act or the designated authority may appeal to The Court of Appeal any ruling, decision or order of the Manitoba court under this Act.
An appeal must be commenced within 90 days after the date the ruling, decision or order of the Manitoba court appealed from is entered as a judgment of the court unless the period is extended by The Court of Appeal either before or after the appeal period has expired.
A person responding to an appeal under subsection (2) may appeal a ruling, decision or order in the same proceeding within 30 days after receipt of the notice of the appeal.
An order under appeal remains in force pending the determination of the appeal unless the court that made the order or The Court of Appeal orders otherwise.
The designated authority must notify the appropriate authority in the reciprocating jurisdiction of the decision on the appeal.
The minister may appoint one or more persons to act as the designated authority in Manitoba for the purposes of this Act or any provisions of this Act.
A person appointed under subsection (1) may, in writing, delegate any power or duty under this Act to any other person or persons.
On receipt of an order or document for transmission under this Act to a reciprocating jurisdiction, the designated authority must transmit the order or document to the appropriate authority of the reciprocating jurisdiction.
If the reciprocating jurisdiction requires an order or document to be translated into a language other than English or French, the person for whom the order or document is being transmitted must provide the required translation together with a certificate of the translator authenticating the accuracy of the translation.
Any government or agency of a government that is providing or has provided social assistance to a person has the same rights as that person to commence or participate in proceedings under this Act for any of the following purposes:
If, in a proceeding under this Act, a document from a reciprocating jurisdiction contains terminology different from the terminology in this Act or contains terminology or is in a form different than that customarily in use in the Manitoba court, the Manitoba court must give a broad and liberal interpretation to the terminology or form so as to give effect to the document.
In a proceeding under this Act, a document purporting to be signed by a judge, officer of a court or public officer in a reciprocating jurisdiction is, unless the contrary is proved, proof of the appointment, signature and authority of the person who signed it.
Statements in writing sworn to by the maker, depositions or transcripts of evidence taken in a reciprocating jurisdiction may be received in evidence by a court in Manitoba under this Act.
This Act does not impair any other remedy available to a person, the Province of Manitoba, a province or territory of Canada, a jurisdiction outside Canada or a political subdivision or official agency of a province or territory of Canada or of a jurisdiction outside Canada.
If the Lieutenant Governor in Council is satisfied that laws are or will be in effect in a jurisdiction for the reciprocal enforcement of support orders made in Manitoba on a basis substantially similar to this Act, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations declaring that jurisdiction to be a reciprocating jurisdiction.
In declaring a jurisdiction to be a reciprocating jurisdiction under subsection (1), the Lieutenant Governor in Council may impose any conditions with respect to the enforcement and recognition of support orders made or registered in that jurisdiction.
The Lieutenant Governor in Council may, by regulation, revoke any declaration made under subsection (1) and the jurisdiction with respect to which the declaration was made ceases to be a reciprocating jurisdiction for the purposes of this Act.
An order made or registered under the former Act continues to be valid and in force, and may be varied or enforced or otherwise dealt with under this Act.
Where notice of proceedings to consider a provisional order or a provisional order for variation or notice of registration of a final order is given to the respondent before the coming into force of this Act, the provisional order, provisional order for variation or application to set aside the registration of a final order must be dealt with in accordance with the former Act as if the former Act had not been repealed.
An application for a provisional order or a provisional order for variation by a person ordinarily resident in Manitoba under the former Act, made before the coming into force of this Act, may be continued as if the former Act had not been repealed.
Where, on the coming into force of this Act, a final order received for registration under the former Act has not been registered in the Manitoba court, the final order must be dealt with in accordance with this Act as if it were an extra-provincial order or foreign order, as the case may be, received under Part 2 of this Act.
Where a provisional order or a provisional order for variation was received under the former Act and notice of proceedings to consider the order had not been given to the respondent on the coming into force of this Act, the provisional order or provisional order for variation must be dealt with in accordance with this Act as if the order was received under Part 1 or Part 3 of this Act, as the case may be.
Clause (o) of the definition "family proceeding" in section 41 of The Court of Queen's Bench Act is replaced with the following:
Clause (b) of the definition "order" in section 52 of The Family Maintenance Act is amended by striking out "The Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders Act" and substituting "The Inter-jurisdictional Support Orders Act, The Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders Act (now repealed)".
Clauses (c) and (d) of the definition "maintenance order" in section 13 of The Garnishment Act are amended by striking out "The Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders Act" and substituting "The Inter-jurisdictional Support Orders Act or The Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders Act (now repealed)".
The Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders Act, R.S.M. 1987, c. M20, is repealed.
This Act may be cited as The Inter-jurisdictional Support Orders Act and referred to as chapter I60 of the Continuing Consolidation of the Statutes of Manitoba.