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Welfare Reform Bill
AMENDMENTS
TO BE MOVED
IN GRAND COMMITTEE
[Supplementary to the Fourteenth Marshalled List]
Clause 131
LORD MACKAY OF CLASHFERN
Page 101, line 19, at end insert—
“( ) In section 6 of the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (provision to allow charging of fees by the Commission), after subsection (2) insert—
“(3) Nothing in regulations under subsection (1) shall impose a liability on a parent with care for the payment of fees to the Commission where that parent has taken all reasonable steps to establish whether it is possible or appropriate to make a maintenance agreement (within the meaning of section 9 of the Child Support Act 1991), and where, having taken all such reasonable steps, it is either not possible or not appropriate for the parent with care to do so.””
BARONESS SHERLOCK
Page 101, line 19, at end insert—
“(1A) In section 6(2)(g) of the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008, after “fees”, insert “including, in particular, waiver of any fee where the applicant has experienced domestic violence from the non-resident parent, which may have included physical, sexual, emotional, and financial abuse.””