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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

There was no reference, in either of the interesting and valid points made, to proposed Section 39B(4) of the Child Support Act in the amendment: "““Before making an order under this section against a person, the Commission shall consider whether the person needs a travel authorisation in order to earn a living””." The instances quoted by the noble Lords, Lord Goodlad and Lord Skelmersdale, might include, for example, a visit to family overseas on medical grounds or a need for urgent medical treatment and so on. Would the noble Lords be satisfied if my noble friend felt that a possible compromise might be to extend the grounds in new subsection (4) to, for example, take medical grounds into account, rather than to seek to make all such applications go through the courts?