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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

For the avoidance of doubt, I am wholly in agreement with the general thrust of all the amendments. However, I do not understand all of the detail and I should like to study what the Minister has said. In addition—I do not know whether he made any reference to this in his earlier remarks—but in relation to both the current account and the lump sum deduction orders, the proposed regulations in Amendment Nos. 117, 134 and 156 contain caveats which state that regulations will specify that an order cannot be made in respect of an account of a prescribed description. As that applies to both current account and lump sum deduction orders it would be helpful—the Minister may have glancingly referred to this earlier—if the Minister could let me know, if not today then at some other stage, exactly what those exclusions were designed to try to catch. Otherwise they take away the rationale for my later Amendments Nos. 115 and 174. I am wholly in agreement with the general thrust of these amendments.