law: Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007
  12. Option regarding
  
  maintenance in certain cases.-
  Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in Chapter IX of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of
  
  1974) where a senior citizen or a parent is entitled for maintenance under the
  
  said Chapter and also entitled for maintenance under this Act may, without
  
  prejudice to the provisions of Chapter IX of the said Code, claim such
  
  maintenance under either of those Acts but not under both.