Bakshi Kanwaljit SinghKANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI (National): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. First of all I would also like to acknowledge all the firefighters women and men who have been contributing to this country particularly in the recent incidents in Nelson with the fire floods and different incidents which they respond to. I want to thank all women and men paid and volunteers for their contribution and the services they provide to us.We will be supporting the second reading of this bill but definitely as the Minister of Internal Affairs has just mentioned that she will be introducing a Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) in the committee stage we will go through that SOP and see what the Minister is proposing with those changes.When we were in the select committee process we did ask the officials: is there any other proposal which is being considered or not? The answer was: We don't know if there is any other proposal; we are working on this." That's a little bit disappointing because if that process was in place we should have been informed about it. We could have gone through the select committee process which was very comprehensive and thoroughly discussed this bill. As you can see the submitters were very few but the quality of the submissions was quite high. Five oral submissions were heard under the leadership of the chair Brett Hudson and other members also provided a lot of input in this consideration. I think that was very important that if there was something coming up the select committee should have been informed about it but it was not informed and now suddenly we hear from the Minister that there will be an SOP to change this regime. This is a bit of a disappointment.In the Governance and Administration Committee there were a few recommendations made by the committee to report back and I would like to touch upon them. The exemption to the public collection was made because we know that people have interest in artefacts and things which are in archives and proportionately they would have to pay a lot of levy for this service to ensure that the insurance for these archives and artefacts is not affected. That's why this exemption was given.Clauses 40 to 140 in the Act which were supposed to come into force from 1 July 2019 provided the new levy regime. Insurers and brokers will implement the regime but they will first need to make considerable changes to their systems. That is why the committee decided that the implementation of these clauses may be changed to 1 July 2021. It was also proposed that if they are to be commenced before 1 July 2021 the Order in Council can change that date.As I was mentioning the public collections are exempted from this and the Minister just mentioned that in the SOP she will be proposing the Defence Force will be also exempted from this levy. I think that is a welcome step and we know that the Defence Force are also always available to help the people of this country.There was another discussion that once the levy is finalised and approved by Cabinet how much time should be given to the insurers to implement that? Originally it was proposed that it should be three months from the finalisation of such levies but the committee discussed that and it was proposed that it should be a minimum of four months instead of three months. That is a reasonable time for the insurers to implement their upgrading of their software and the policies.The committee also recommended amending clause 5 to insert a new subsection (4A) into section 141 of the Act which empowers the making of levy regulations and that is because the levy can be changed every two to three years as is appropriate for the Minister to consider. It is very important that we have to give them the lead-in time so that they can implement it. I think overall this bill is a good bill but now we have got a new situation where a Supplementary Order Paper will be introduced by the Minister. But meanwhile in the second reading we will be supporting this bill. Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker."