Section 261: Failure to pay alimony

261. Failure to pay alimony (1) Toute personne condamnée à (1) Any person who, having been verser des aliments à son conjoint ou judicially ordered to pay alimony to à ses enfants, qui sera volontaire- his spouse or children, voluntarily ment demeurée 2 mois sans verser fails, during 2 months, to pay the entièrement à son conjoint ou à ses full amount of alimony so ordered to enfants les dits aliments, commettra his spouse or children, shall commit une offense et sera punie d’une an offence and shall, on conviction, amende n’excédant pas 50,000 rou- be liable to a fine not exceeding pies et d’emprisonnement n’excédant 50,000 rupees and to imprisonment pas 2 ans. for a term not exceeding 2 years. (2) Any default in the payment of alimony shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed to be voluntary. (3) Part X of the Criminal Procedure Act and the Probation of Offenders Act shall not apply to a person liable to be sentenced under subsection (1). (4) A prosecution for an offence under this section shall take place in the district in which the person entitled to the payment of the alimony is ordinarily resident. [S. 261 added by Act 13 of 1998; amended by s. 8 of Act 36 of 2008 w.e.f. 6 December 2008.]