Borrows Chester: Third Readings —Text is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBorrows Chester: Third Readings —[Sitting date: 19 November 2013. Volume:695;Page:15046. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon CHESTER BORROWS (Associate Minister of Justice): I moveThat the Accident Compensation Amendment Bill (No 2) the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Bill (No 2) the Aquaculture Reform (Repeals and Transitional Provisions) Amendment Bill the Armed Forces Discipline Amendment Bill the Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration Amendment Bill (No 2) the Children Young Persons and Their Families Amendment Bill (No 3) the Companies Amendment Bill (No 3) the Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Amendment Bill the Disputes Tribunals Amendment Bill the Electoral Amendment Bill (No 2) the District Courts Amendment Bill the Extradition Amendment Bill the Flags Emblems and Names Protection Amendment Bill the Gambling Amendment Bill the Health Amendment Bill the Health and Disability Commissioner Amendment Bill the Insolvency Amendment Bill the Legislation Amendment Bill the Local Electoral Amendment Bill (No 3) the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill (No 4) the Maori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Amendment Bill the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Amendment Bill the Passports Amendment Bill the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Amendment Bill the Real Estate Agents Amendment Bill (No 2) the Road User Charges Amendment Bill (No 2) the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Amendment Bill the Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Bill the State Sector Amendment Bill (No 2) the StatisticsAmendment Bill (No 2) the Tariff Amendment Bill the Telecommunications Amendment Bill the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Amendment Bill the Wills Amendment Bill (No 2) and the Wine Amendment Bill (No 2) be now read a third time.As the House is well aware Statutes Amendment bills have been a feature of the New Zealand Parliament system for a very long time. The oldest Statutes Amendment Act dates back to ’36—1936 that is. The bills divided from the Statutes Amendment Bill today propose a number of valuable changes to the statute book that would not ordinarily receive the House’s time. Although minor technical and non-controversial by nature Statutes Amendment bills are an important component of the Government’s annual legislation programme and have been in successive Governments and allow us to keep the law up to date accurate and user-friendly.The legislation contains 169 clauses and amends 33 different Acts. There has been the introduction of a couple of Supplementary Order Papers during the Committee stage and it is important to note what they are. A question was asked in the previous Committee stage about the reason for urgency. The obvious reason which has been made known to the Opposition for some time is changes to the sale and supply of alcohol particularly in respect of minibars in hotels being not bound by on-licence trading. For caterers there is a similar thing so that caterers at certain weddings which some of us may attend over the Christmas break will not be forced to stop serving alcohol at certain times constrained by the legislation. There are also wine cellars—that is “cellars” with a “c”. And knowing how important our wine industry is to our country I am sure Opposition members are only too pleased to support it or so they indicated earlier on.Hon Ruth Dyson: So urgency for wine?Hon CHESTER BORROWS: Knowing the discussions I have had with the Hon Ruth Dyson around other matters contained in the alcohol legislation I know that she is very supportive of this. Politics is not without its theatre and its game-staging. It is good to see Mr Mallard back after his little sojourn and it is interesting to see that he is ably ruffling the feathers and dividing the fissures within the Labour Party opposite.This bill proposes a number of valuable changes to the statute book that are minor technical and non-controversial as much as I have tried to make this speech a little bit controversial. I commend the legislation to the House.