Parker DavidHon DAVID PARKER (Attorney-General): Thank you Mr Chairman. Yes that's correct. This bill for the purposes of COVID-19 epidemics is the governing legislation. Were there to be another epidemic that was not related to COVID the underlying law would sit there—I think I've got that right. Officials are confirming that. But for COVID-19 we accept that where we need more nuanced frameworks that are potentially very intrusive we think that should have going forward as we have come out of this emergency phase a bespoke piece of legislation and this is it. The protection that there is that lies in that I would suggest to the committee is greater than sits under the Health Act for some of the reasons that have already been discussed.Hon Michael Woodhouse: We'll get on to that in Part 2 I think.Hon DAVID PARKER: Yes in Part 2. While I'm on my feet I just want to raise an issue relating to Part 1 and that is the definition of specified private premises" and explain how this has arisen and why we're proposing the solution that we have. Members will note that in the Supplementary Order Paper that we tabled last night we inserted the words "specified private premises" on page 5 and we said that specified private premises means a dwellinghouse or marae. To make sense of that members have to look at clause 20 of the bill which we'll come to which said at the time of introduction " subsection (1)"—this is the police powers of warrantless entry on any grounds to go into land building craft—"does not apply to a private dwellinghouse or marae." There has been a concern that the Hon Alfred Ngaro mentioned yesterday amongst Māoridom that this is somehow paternalistic because it treats Māori premises differently to other premises. The difficulty arises from the likes of the Te Puea Marae where marae are used for more than one purpose. Te Puea Marae has had people living there. It's been very public with homeless people having been housed at Te Puea Marae. They also have education there. They also have other meetings and they probably have counselling services and other commercial operations there or semi-commerical operations at different marae as well. It's a point that Willie Jackson has made.So the bill as introduced said "Well what do we do? We'll treat them like a dwellinghouse." So we said in section 20 that it should be dwellinghouse or marae. Now the Māori Council and others have said that there's no reason why "marae" should be inserted in deference to a non-Māori gathering place such as a hotel conference or birthday party. It could be seen as unfairly targeting Māori and the places they gather. It might also infer that there's a different standard being applied to Māoridom and Māori don't want that imputation to be made which was the Hon Alfred Ngaro's point.So we tried to address that by dragging it into the definitions section. It's actually something that doesn't take away protections; it actually adds them. But none the less Māoridom don't want that; they want to be the same as non-Māoridom in respect of those premises. So what we're going to do in a Supplementary Order Paper that we've tabled is actually take out that underlined word on page 5 so that we're not creating a difference for Māoridom and then take out the word "marae" from clause 20 of the bill. Then we're left with as you'll see in the tracked changes version of clause 20 exactly the same for marae and other premises but the obligation in terms of Māoridom if they go into a marae exercising a warrantless power of going into the marae they've got to give a notice to the committee of the marae."