Commentary on provisions of Act Section 1: Collection of maintenance in England and Wales and Scotland: cases involving domestic abuse
Section 1 amends section 4 of the 1991 Act to make provision for the collection of maintenance in England and Wales and Scotland in cases involving domestic abuse.
	Subsection (2) expands the circumstances in which arrangements may be made to collect maintenance. It inserts subsection (3A) into section 4 of the 1991 Act which gives the Secretary of State the power to place a child maintenance case onto the collect and pay service when the Person with Care or the Non-Resident Parent applies, and the Secretary of State is satisfied on the basis of evidence of a prescribed kind relating to relevant domestic abuse that it is appropriate for such arrangements to be made. It inserts subsection (3B) which defines relevant domestic abuse for the purposes of the subsection.
	Subsection (3) amends section 4 (4) of the 1991 Act to expand the power to make regulations about the provision of information to cover applications on the basis of domestic abuse.