Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

moved Amendment No. 1: 1: Clause 11, page 5, line 36, after ““order”” insert ““made by statutory instrument”” The noble Lord said: My Lords, I shall speak also to the amendments grouped with Amendment No. 1. They are both minor and technical and make clear the implementation process by which we will commence certain provisions. Clause 11 provides that the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission be established as a non-departmental public body with Crown status. Noble Lords will remember that this status will be reviewed after three years. The amendment clarifies that should the commission cease to be a Crown body following this review, the order will be made by statutory instrument. Clause 62 provides commencement dates for certain provisions within the Bill. Subsections (1) and (2) provide specific dates for when a few certain provisions will come into force. Subsection (3) provides that provisions not covered in subsections (1) and (2) shall come into force as and when the Secretary of State makes an order by statutory instrument. Amendment No. 4 inserts a further subsection to clarify that such an order may include transitional provision or savings. This is a standard provision and will streamline the staging of individual provisions being commenced. For example, when Section 6 repeal is commenced, it is necessary to include in the commencement order provision for existing cases to be continued as if they had been private applications. I beg to move.