order or such direction; (b) the refusal of an application for a contribution order or for the variation, suspension, rescission or revival of a contribution order or direction made in terms of subsection (2) of section forty-nine. (2) The Magistrates Court Act [Chapter 7:10] and the High Court Act [Chapter 7:06] and the rules made thereunder shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to such appeal as if it were an appeal against the judgment in a civil suit by a magistrate. 55 Change of place of residence of respondent (1) If a respondent against whom a contribution order has been made during the currency of the order changes his place of residence, he shall forthwith give notice in writing to the clerk of the children’s court by which the order was made and shall in that notice state fully and clearly where the place of residence to which he has removed is situated. (2) When a respondent against whom a contribution order is in force removes to and becomes resident in a district other than that of the court which made the order, that court may, if it thinks it desirable, without prior notice to the respondent, vary the order by designating as the officer to whom payment shall be made the clerk of the children’s court of the district to which the respondent has removed, and when a court has so varied an order it shall transmit a certified copy of the order to such clerk of the court and inform the respondent by notice in writing of the variation of the order. (3) An order which has been transmitted to another court in terms of subsection (2) shall thereupon have effect and be enforceable as if it were an order of that court. 56 Service of process (1) Any summons, rule, subpoena or notice in connection with any proceedings in terms of this Part may be served without fee by any police officer in the manner prescribed by the rules made in terms of the Magistrates Court Act [Chapter 7:10] for the service of similar documents in civil proceedings in magistrates courts, unless any other manner of service has been prescribed in terms of subsection (11) of section five or by registered letter. (2) Any writ of attachment in execution of a contribution order shall be executed by the messenger of the magistrates court of the district in which the property to be attached is situated, and the messenger’s fee and charges for the execution shall be paid out of the proceeds of the sale of any such property attached in execution and shall be levied in addition, and in preference, to the sum payable in terms of the contribution order. (3) Save as is provided in subsection (2), no costs of any proceedings in terms of this Part or of any appeal in terms of section fifty-four shall be recoverable by any party thereto from any other party, and no court fee shall be payable in connection with the issue or lodging of any document in any such proceedings or appeal. PART VII ADOPTION OF CHILDREN 57 Jurisdiction and procedure in relation to adoption order (1) The court having jurisdiction to make adoption orders in terms of this Part shall be the children’s court established in terms of subsection (1) of section three within the jurisdiction of which either the applicant or the minor resides at the date of the application for the adoption order. (2) For the purpose of any application in terms of this Part, the court shall appoint a probation officer to act as guardian ad litem of the minor upon the hearing of the application with the duty of safeguarding the interests of the minor before the court Provided that, where the child is being adopted following a decision by its mother to give it up for adoption, the Director shall appoint a probation officer to act as the child’s guardian ad litem from the time the child is born or the mother makes the decision, whichever is the later, and the probation officer shall be responsible for safeguarding the child’s interests from his appointment until the completion of the adoption proceedings.

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