3A

Where a maintenance calculation has been made in response to an application under this section, the Secretary of State may, if the person with care or the non-resident parent applies to the Secretary of State under this subsection, arrange for the collection of the child support maintenance payable in accordance with the calculation if satisfied on the basis of evidence of a prescribed kind relating to relevant domestic abuse that it is appropriate for such arrangements to be made.

3B

For the purposes of subsection (3A), “relevant domestic abuse” means—

a

where the application under subsection (3A) is made by the person with care, behaviour of the non-resident parent towards the person with care, or any child living in the same household with the person with care, that amounts to domestic abuse;

b

where the application under subsection (3A) is made by the non-resident parent, behaviour of the person with care towards the non-resident parent, or any child living in the same household with the non-resident parent, that amounts to domestic abuse.