Salesa Jenny; Penk Chris; Parker DavidClause 2 CommencementCHAIRPERSON (Hon Jenny Salesa): We come now to the debate on clause 2. This is the debate on the commencement clause. The question is that clause 2 stand part.CHRIS PENK (National—Kaipara ki Mahurangi): Thank you very much Madam Chair. I think it's been well canvassed at previous stages of this bill being considered by the House that it's widely supported. I can at least speak for National and of course the Government putting forward the bill will continue to support it no doubt.So a couple of contributions as we go through the committee stage really for the purpose of placing on record a couple of points about the way that it will operate. Obviously it's pretty technical and I don't propose to do that in a way that is anything other than helpful for the public record in terms of the way that the mechanics of this will all work out. So in terms of the commencement date which Madam Chair has invited us to consider as a committee of this the whole House I wonder if the Attorney-General can speak to the way that that's intended to roll out. Obviously we've got a mechanism where different dates can be set by Order in Council and it seems to me that that might be quite fragmented in the way that we get this coherent regime quite slowly over a long period of time. So I wonder if there's any advice that the Attorney-General can give us in that regard.I see that he's consulting with officials so I'll just continue speaking for a couple more moments I think. [Interruption] Ha ha! I'm encouraged not to be helpful by the devil on my shoulder but the angel on my shoulder says to continue on. I wonder then in that case if I can also add in a question whereby the Attorney-General might advise how it is as a House that we are dealing with the fact that we've got a piece of legislation that was contemplated and indeed drafted some time ago. I see that you know originally it would've come into effect in 2019 but we've had quite a lot of time having been passed since then and quite a few laws as well. I presume that his answer will involve the very considerable Supplementary Order Paper that's almost as big as the Act itself—quite a feat and I congratulate all those involved in putting it together.But if the Minister is now ready to provide an answer in relation to the timings the way it will all be brought forward that would be much appreciated.Hon DAVID PARKER (Attorney-General): Thank you for those questions. There are essentially three categories of change that are implemented through this bill. The first is the long list of statutes that are made consistent with the new arrangements and that is as we all know a huge list that goes right across the statute book. An Order in Council is envisaged to bring those changes into effect for all of those different pieces of legislation on the same date which is set by Order in Council but is expected to be around October this year.In respect of another class of instruments those are the much smaller list of empowering statutes that have regulation-making powers or that are being exempted from some of these provisions. Again they are being grouped so that those exemptions will come into effect on the same date not necessarily the October date but it might be. So it might be the same date but it doesn't have to be.Then the third different commencement date which is less certain is the date on which there is centralised publication required of future instruments and that's dependent in part on technology and therefore it's less certain and I don't know the date for that yet.