The Family Tribunal, the Tribunal, was established by section 77 of the Children Act with the mandate to, inter alia, ‘hear and determine matters relating to the care, custody, access or maintenance’. In the execution of its mandate, the Tribunal has applied the relevant sections of the Act which deal with the question of maintenance orders. In this article, the author read through 1020 files of the Tribunal (from 2014 to June 2019) to establish how it has understood and applied the relevant sections of the Act which are applicable to the maintenance of children. The author demonstrates that there are instances where the Tribunal has misunderstood the relevant sections of the Act which brings into question the validity of some of its orders. Decisions from the Tribunal are appealable to the Supreme Court. Where possible, the author refers to case law from the Supreme Court in which it has guided the Tribunal on the correct application of the Act. The author, based on the practice of the Tribunal, identifies some of the challenges the Tribunal has faced in implementing the relevant sections of the Act and suggests ways in which the Tribunal could implement the Act better or in which the Act may be amended to address those challenges.

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实施《儿童法》：塞舌尔家庭法庭和儿童抚养案件

家庭法庭，即法庭，是根据《儿童法》第 77 条设立的，其任务尤其是“听取和决定与照料、监护、探视或赡养有关的事项”。在执行其任务时，法庭适用了该法中处理赡养令问题的相关章节。在这篇文章中，作者通读了法庭的 1020 份档案（从 2014 年到 2019 年 6 月），以确定它是如何理解和适用该法案中适用于抚养子女的相关条款的。提交人证明，在某些情况下，法庭误解了该法的相关部分，从而对其某些命令的有效性产生了质疑。法庭的裁决可上诉至最高法院。在可能的情况，提交人提到最高法院的判例法，它在该判例法中指导法庭正确适用该法。提交人根据法庭的实践，确定了法庭在执行该法的相关部分时面临的一些挑战，并提出了法庭可以更好地执行该法或可以修改该法以解决问题的方法那些挑战。