Bakshi Kanwaljit Singh: Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration (Preventing Name Change by Child Sex Offenders) Amendment Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBakshi Kanwaljit Singh: Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration (Preventing Name Change by Child Sex Offenders) Amendment Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 02 December 2015. Volume:710;Page:8507. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]KANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI (National): Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to speak on this bill the Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration (Preventing Name Change by Child Sex Offenders) Amendment Bill in the name of Dr Jian Yang. First of all I would like to congratulate Dr Jian Yang promoter of this bill on bringing up this very important legislation to this House. I think this is in accordance with what this Government has been doing for the last 7 years to make our community safe. This bill as Dr Jian Yang said in his speech and in his press release is to protect children from child sex offenders and keep them safe in our communities. You will remember that a little while ago there was an incident where a teacher who changed his name—and changed it not once but a few times—went into the teaching profession. He was again caught doing some kind of offence and he was arrested. That is why we need to have a register where we can see that anybody who has been convicted of child sex offences should not be in this profession. Police vetting is very important in this; that is why we have got this provision where every teacher goes through the vetting process and anybody who is admitted into any profession that relates to children should go through the vetting.This bill is part of what the Government has been doing from time to time. The purpose of the bill is to amend the Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration Act 1995 to prevent convicted child sex offenders from legally changing their name. In this bill the main provision is to amend the definitions used in sections 21A and 21B of the Act which provide the right of an eligible person to register a name change and the procedure for doing so. What Dr Jian Yang is proposing is that whosoever is convicted of a relevant offence should not be allowed to change their name so that he should not get into that profession that is related to any child or any school so that we can protect them. Vulnerables are to be protected and I think this bill will do the right thing.Talking about what the previous speaker from the Labour Party Adrian Rurawhe just mentioned—that this bill is irrelevant or will not do anything—I would like to remind him that today one of his colleagues Stuart Nash asked the Minister of Police the Hon Michael Woodhouse about what is happening with sex offending in this country. The question was “Is it acceptable?” and the Minister said it was not at all acceptable. We are working hard to ensure that this community is safe.Iain Lees-Galloway: So bring legislation to the House that would actually do something.KANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI: Yes we are doing that. That is what he was trying to tell you and you were not trying to listen and your colleagues were not trying to listen to what he was trying to tell you. It is very important that something should be done and I commend—Iain Lees-Galloway: Yes—something useful.KANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI: It is very useful. Let it happen. You will see what is going to happen out of it. Before it is even happening you are disparaging this legislation. I think this is irrelevant. This is totally ironic considering what this Government is trying to do and those members are trying to stop us. I would like to once again congratulate Dr Jian Yang on bringing this bill to the House and I commend this bill. Thank you.