Tremain Chris: Electronic Transactions (Contract Formation) Amendment Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTremain Chris: Electronic Transactions (Contract Formation) Amendment Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 09 April 2014. Volume:697;Page:17096. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon CHRIS TREMAIN (National—Napier):It is a pleasure to take part in the Committee stage of the Electronic Transactions (Contract Formation) Amendment Bill and it is particularly important as we approach or get into the guts of clause 1 of this bill which deals with the title of the bill one that I have actually just mentioned.It has had me pondering actually—the title of this bill—because tonight we have learnt that the member in the chair Paul Goldsmith has a BA in history and obviously did many English papers is a linguist one with much ability in the spoken and written word and is an astute and intelligent man. So I think it is our duty tonight to challenge the member in the chair as to the title of this bill and as to whether he has actually got the nub—the true essence—of the title accurate.We will be considering a range of different names for the title of this bill this evening and asking the gentleman in the chair Mr Paul Goldsmith to respond to these titles and to give us a sense of whether we have actually got the nub of the title correct tonight because what is really important is that this bill will go down in history. It will go down in history as the first bill that the member Paul Goldsmith has taken fully through this House and that is not a small matter. There are members in this Chamber who have come here year in year out and have never been able to climb those lofty heights of taking a bill from its formation through the period. I am one of those members apart from as a Minister where I was able to achieve that but a member’s bill is something that very few people are able to climb the heights to. As a result of that the title is actually very important because it will go down in history. And given that the member in the chair has a BA in history it is critical that we focus on it in some detail.So the question I have tonight is about the current name the Electronic Transactions (Contract Formation) Amendment Bill because the bill is very much focused on enabling electronic contracts in the modern world. One of the key pieces of Government policy that has been worked on recently has been the Government ICT Strategy and Action Plan to 2017. I am wondering whether the member in the chair gave much consideration to linking the title of this bill to the Government ICT Strategy and Action Plan to 2017 to ensure that it captured the nub of the strategies in this particular strategic document so that when we get to clause 5 which is actually the heart of this bill we will be sure that we have actually captured that correctly in the title.Key to that strategy is actually result 10 which many members out there in the community will have heard of. Result 10 was one of the Prime Minister’s key statements when we commenced this term of Government and it was that by 2017 an average of 70 percent of New Zealand’s most common transactions electronic transactions—Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi: Pardon?Hon CHRIS TREMAIN: By 2017 an average of 70 percent of New Zealand’s most common transactions with the Government will be completed in a digital environment. This bill goes to the heart of that. So my question to the member in the chair with his BA in history and English is whether he gave strong consideration to the title.Moana Mackey: What’s a BA in history got to do with it?Hon CHRIS TREMAIN: Well he also did English papers as well and has written many books over his time so I am just suggesting he is a linguist of note. Did he give consideration to the strategy in his consideration of the title before us tonight? That is my question for the member. Thank you.