Barker Rick: Third Readings 
Barker Rick: Third Readings 
[Volume:625;Page:20392] 
Hon RICK BARKER (Associate Minister of Justice) 
: 
 I move  
That the Armed Forces Discipline Amendment Bill (No 2) the Conservation Amendment Bill (No 3) the Constitution Amendment Bill the Defence Amendment Bill (No 3) the Electoral Amendment Bill (No 2) the Evidence Amendment Bill the Fire Service Amendment Bill (No 2) the Forest and Rural Fires Amendment Bill the Geneva Conventions Amendment Bill the Government Superannuation Fund Amendment Bill (No 5) the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Amendment Bill (No 2) the Judicature Amendment Bill (No 4) the Land Transfer Amendment Bill the Maritime Transport Amendment Bill (No 2) the Medicines Amendment Bill (No 4) the Motor Vehicle Sales Amendment Bill the National Parks Amendment Bill the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Amendment Bill (No 2) the Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Amendment Bill the Patriotic and Canteen Funds Amendment Bill the Racing Amendment Bill the Radiocommunications Amendment Bill (No 2) the Reserves Amendment Bill the Sale of Liquor Amendment Bill (No 4) the Telecommunications Amendment Bill and the Trade in Endangered Species Amendment Bill be now read a third time.  
I thank the chair of the Government Administration Committee Dianne Yates and all the other members of the select committee for doing an outstanding job on this legislation. I also thank the Committee of the whole House for its help and its suggestions for improving the bill. The Statutes Amendment Bill (No 4) is a unique bill. It is an omnibus bill it can pass only with leave and it is constrained to being about technical and non-controversial matters. That does not mean to say that there is not sometimes controversy on such bills but it should not be the case. 
I want to respond to the point made by Lindsay Tisch in the Committee stage about Supplementary Order Papers coming in on this legislation. I note that the select committee’s report on the Statutes Amendment Bill (No 4) states: “… we were continuously confronted with requests to have included in the bill further amendments to Acts.” It went on to make the point that this process could in fact erode good will. I took the committee’s comments very seriously. I have now changed the process for Statutes Amendment bills so that the amendments that can be expected to such bills can be corralled on to a single Supplementary Order Paper. From time to time departments and ministries find they want amendments made and on the Statutes Amendment Bill (No 4) we found they were putting in their requests for Supplementary Order Paper amendments individually and separately. People had a flutter of paper arriving on their desks—day after day and week after week it seemed—requesting new Supplementary Order Papers. I have told them that we were not going to have that that we were would put up a Statutes Amendment bill and that if any subsequent amendments needed to be considered they would be on a single Supplementary Order Paper. I have signed that out in respect of the subsequent Statutes Amendment Bill (No 5) and Mr Tisch and members of the committee will find that a single Supplementary Order Paper will come to them not requests for multitudes of Supplementary Order Papers. Anything not on that Supplementary Order Paper will have to wait for the Statutes Amendment Bill (No 6). So I have taken the committee’s words of caution seriously. I have acted upon them— 
Darren Hughes 
: A smart interactive Government! 
Hon RICK BARKER 
: The member’s quick! I will make sure that the process flows more smoothly. I just reassure Mr Tisch that I had read the Government Administration Committee’s report and have acted on it and I think members will see an improvement in the process. Lastly I thank the Committee of the whole House for its assistance in passing this legislation.