Willis NicolaNICOLA WILLIS (Deputy Leader—National): This is a bill that is a member's bill that has benefited greatly from an extensive and collaborative select committee process. I want to acknowledge the contribution of officials and members across the House who have sought to make this bill better during the select committee process. On the Table we have a Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) from the Minister which outlines a number of changes designed to make this bill work in practice for those living in unit title dwellings for those who wish to purchase them in the future and for those operating bodies corporate. National members will be supporting the Minister's SOP 144 as we believe that the amendments make the bill more workable in practice. We remain of the view that there are some things that could be done to strengthen this bill further and to make it more operable and I want to in this call just outline two of those both of which are covered by SOPs in the name of National's housing spokesperson Chris Bishop. The first relates to disclosure requirements. During the select committee process there were a number of concerns raised by submitters about how disclosure would work with the changes that had been put forward in the bill. I think the intent of everyone is to ensure that when someone goes to purchase a property they can get good transparent information about any problems that that building may have had or any defects that they have awareness of that before they put in an offer and that they can have confidence that if there are problems with the building then they will get that information up front. I believe that the changes that the select committee has made in this regard will ensure that that process both works for potential purchasers but also isn't overly bureaucratic and burdensome for those in the sale process. There was some debate and discussion about the issue of remediation reports. Now those reports are prepared by a building professional that reviews and reports on investigations of any defects within the unit title development. Now there was some advice that it would be expected that remediation reports would by default be included in any pre-disclosure requirement. There has been a lot of discussion about the need for defects to specifically be brought to potential purchasers' attention and so SOP 149 in Chris Bishop's name just makes that clear. It's a belt and braces approach to specify that remediation reports that have been commissioned in the past three years by the body corporate be as of right available to a potential purchaser and I commend that SOP to the committee. The second outstanding issue where National members have come to a view that this bill could be better is that of proxy voting. Now in the initial member's bill which I had brought to the House we sought to limit proxy voting and there were some good arguments raised by both submitters and officials about why we should be careful not to limit proxy voting too far so as to disrupt quorum of committee or make it difficult for business to occur. So what Chris Bishop has put forward in an SOP is a bit of a compromise because we still believe—and I want to acknowledge all those stakeholders who have come to me with their stories—that proxy voting can be misused and can undermine the democratic management of bodies corporate. So SOP 147 sets out that proxies can still act as proxies for a single eligible voter who owns multiple units regardless of the number of units in the unit title development—so to make clear that that is the case—and it also makes clear that if eligible voters actually give a direction for how they want their vote to be cast then that doesn't count towards a proxy cap. It then also proposes that the proxy cap be kept to more than 10 percent of the total principal units whereas in the original member's bill that cap was at 5 percent and again more than two principal units where there are 20 rather than one as it was in the original bill. So I speak to that SOP because I want to encourage members around the House to support it as a workable compromise that would meet the concerns of those who have seen abuses of proxy voting while also not going too far. Again I thank officials and all those involved in the select committee process for getting this bill to where it is today and I acknowledge the Minister's SOP. CHAIRPERSON (Ian McKelvie): The question is that Parts 1 and 2 Schedules 1 to 3 and clauses 1 and 2 stand part.