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Children and Adoption Bill [HL]

Before the noble Baroness withdraws the amendment, perhaps I could make a further point for the record, because it is important. Of course, her point about domestic violence is real and of acute concern to us in framing these provisions. That is precisely why, under subsection (3), the court may not make an enforcement order if it is satisfied that the person had a reasonable excuse for failing to comply with the contact order. There can be no more reasonable excuse than a well-founded fear of domestic violence.