Section 6

Where a maintenance order has been made by a court in a reciprocating country, and the order is provisional only and has no effect unless and until confirmed by a Court having jurisdiction in Malaysia, and a certified copy of the order together with the depositions of witnesses and a certificate stating the grounds on which the order might have been opposed has been transmitted to the Minister charged with responsibility for the judiciary and it appears to the Minister that the person against whom the order was made is resident in Malaysia, the Minister shall cause the documents to be sent to the appropriate local Court with a requisition that a summons be issued calling upon the person to show cause why that order should not be confirmed, and upon receipt of the document and requisition the appropriate local Court shall issue a summons and cause it to be served upon that person.

A summons so issued may be served in the same manner as if it had been originally issued under the Criminal Procedure

Code [Act 593].

At the hearing it shall be open to the person on whom the summons was served to raise any defence which he might have raised in the original proceedings had he been a party thereto but no other defence, and the certificate from the court which made the provisional order stating the grounds on which the making of the order might have been opposed if the person against whom the order was made had been a party to the proceedings shall be conclusive evidence that those grounds are grounds on which objection may be taken.

If at the hearing the person served with the summons does not appear or, on appearing, fails to satisfy the local Court that the order ought not be confirmed, the Court may confirm the order either without modification or with such modifications as to the Court after hearing the evidence may seem just.