Salesa Jenny; Bayly Andrew; Parker DavidClauses 1 and 2CHAIRPERSON (Hon Jenny Salesa): Members we now come to our final debate which is on clauses 1 and 2 the title and commencement.ANDREW BAYLY (National—Port Waikato): Thank you Madam Chair. Well we are nearing the end of this one. I want to talk about the commencement date—in fact I want to talk about both but I'm just going to deal with the commencement date. Look I think the recurring theme in the debate this afternoon and going on tonight and same with the earlier COVID bill that was passed via urgency is that it is absolutely imperative that the Government lets business owners their staff and people in general know as soon as possible what the new arrangements will be under the traffic light system. That's just such a big issue. Madam Chair I know you were here for a large part of the debate the heart-wrenching stories the businesses that are crashing and the unknown now and the uncertainty and the lack of clarity is just unbelievably bad. As many of us in the House here represent electorates that span areas and represent business owners who are doing it so tough now I just think the commencement of this bill is a vital part of making sure that we bring to a conclusion as soon as possible the long-lingering process that the Government loves to do which is to make announcements then delay make more announcements and then finally trickle out a bit of information. We just can't go on. We've got eight days; in fact in a couple of hours—an hour and a half—it'll be seven days until the new arrangements have to come into force. We have only got one more parliamentary day—tomorrow—where this bill can be passed and all this is last-minute harried stuff.So the bill here in clause 2(1) proposes that This Act comes into force on the day on which it receives the Royal assent except as provided in this section." Subclause (2) makes reference to the fact that "Sections 10 11 12 and 14 come into force on 1 April 2022." Look my strong plea to the Government and I'm looking at the Minister and I'm grateful that he stayed for the debate tonight and has participated actively is that this bill needs to come into being and people need to know when it is. I'd like to propose that it comes into being by close of play tomorrow 25 November because then people at least have certainty that if you're going to pass this piece of legislation—and the Government is hell-bent on doing that and has the numbers to do it and is ramming it through under urgency—then at least put these people out of their misery by actually making sure that this bill comes into force quickly.I am reminded of my eagle-eyed colleague Chris Bishop who quite rightly identified which no one else seemed to have identified that the commencement date on the COVID management bill which was debated last week—identified the potential that actually by waiting for the Royal assent to be signed and the bill to come into play after being signed would in fact have meant that it was post the date of implementation and therefore compromised the bill itself. I think that we know we are down to seven days and an hour and a half I just think that it is inappropriate to let anything like this slip and linger and that's why I would highly recommend that a specific date be put in here that means that the Minister can make sure his officials are on to the job that we don't have a muck-up like we had last time and another shambolic example of the Government trying to do this last-minute harried stuff and to make sure that people know what the certainty is around it. That is my strong urging. I'd very much welcome the comments from the Minister on this issue and whether in fact he is open to setting a specific date or whether in fact he's made any provisions for the Governor-General to sign the bill and if so when and how and how long after that are we expecting to find the detail that this bill enables.Hon DAVID PARKER (Minister of Revenue): We're not expecting any delay for the Governor-General to provide the Royal assent.Andrew Bayly: Do you know that? Have you made arrangements?Hon DAVID PARKER: Ha ha! Well I saw the Governor-General earlier in the week. I'm sure she's in town. And I'm confident that there's no faster way to bring this into effect than the date on which Royal assent is provided."