Schedule 6
Welfare Reform Bill
11:00 am
Jimmy Hood (Lanark and Hamilton East, Labour)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Amendment 37, in schedule 6, page 91, line 46, leave out ‘reason’ and insert ‘reasonable grounds’.
Amendment 105, in schedule 6, page 91, line 47, after ‘child’, insert ‘or other children living with her’.
Amendment 103, in schedule 6, page 94, line 2, at end insert—
‘(c) where the mother acknowledges the person as the father of the child, but has reason to fear for her safety or that of the child if the father were to acquire responsibility by virtue of section 4(1)(a) of the Children Act 1989’.
Amendment 104, in schedule 6, page 98, line 19, at end insert—
‘(8) This section does not apply where the mother acknowledges the person as the father of the child, but has reason to fear for her safety or that of the child if the father were to acquire parental responsibility by virtue of section 4(1)(a) of the Children Act 1989’.