Lees-Galloway Iain: Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Legislation Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeLees-Galloway Iain: Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Legislation Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 21 October 2015. Volume:709;Page:7419. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY (Labour—Palmerston North): It is a privilege to be able to speak on Part 2 of the Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Legislation Bill. This Part deals with amendments to other enactments. Whereas Part 1 was dealing with amendments to the Crimes Act Part 2 deals with amendments to a variety of other pieces of legislation.Subpart 1 deals with amendments to the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009. The principal Act came into force in 2009 in response to some pressure that New Zealand was being put under to join the international coalition of the willing if you will to put pressure on international crime organisations. I think that the nomenclature in terms of that legislation is probably a little bit over the top. Actually it could have related to organised crime rather than the financing of terrorism but nevertheless restrictions on financing for any form of organised crime are certainly useful.The significant amendments to that legislation are in clause 19 of this bill which amend section 5. The “ ‘domestic physical cash transaction’ means a transaction in New Zealand involving the use of physical currency”. That has been amended slightly by the Law and Order Committee. I would be interested to know from members who were on the select committee why that change needed to occur. The original wording there does not look terribly difficult to interpret. I would be interested to know from members who were actually on the committee why that change was made. There is also an insertion of a new term “international wire transfer”. That is a transfer where at least one of several New Zealand institutions is “(i) the ordering institution: (ii) the intermediary institution: (iii) the beneficiary institution”.New subpart 2A inserted by clause 23 refers to “Prescribed transaction reports”. New section 48A “Reporting entities to report certain prescribed transactions” reads “(1) Despite any other enactment or rule of law but subject to any regulations made under section 154 if a person conducts a prescribed transaction through a reporting entity the reporting entity must (as soon as practicable but not later than 10 working days after the transaction) report the transaction to the Commissioner in accordance with section 48B.” This I assume is to improve transparency around certain prescribed transaction reports and to improve the ability to monitor the movement of certain monetary payments.Subpart 3 is “Amendment to Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Act 1995” and clause 39 inserts section 27(1)(d): “for the purpose of responding to a request under the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992 if—(i) access to the information requested is authorised by the Attorney-General; and (ii) the request relates to an offence that corresponds to an offence in New Zealand that is punishable by a term of imprisonment of more than 1 year.” This has to do with information that goes into the DNA-profile data bank. These are a number of I guess what are technical amendments but they are designed to improve the functionality of various pieces of legislation that relate to greater transparency around—