Section 3

Where a maintenance order has, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, been made against any person by any court in a reciprocating country, and a certified copy of the order has been transmitted to the Minister charged with responsibility for the judiciary, the Minister shall cause a copy thereof to be sent to the appropriate local Court for registration, and, on receipt thereof, the order shall be registered in the prescribed manner and shall, from the date of the registration, be of the same force and effect and, subject to this Act, all proceedings may be taken on the order as if it had been an order originally obtained in the local

Court, and that Court shall have power to enforce the order accordingly.