Tuiono Teanau; Meager James; O'Connor GregClauses 1 to 3 CHAIRPERSON (Teanau Tuiono): Members we now come to our final debate clauses 1 to 3. This is the debate on clauses 1 to 3 Title" "Commencement" and "Principal Act".JAMES MEAGER (National—Rangitata): We've reached the most exciting part of any bill going through the committee of the whole House stage the title and commencement clause debate. And I'm going to start my contribution by focusing on what I believe may hold the record for being the longest title of any bill ever entered into this House. I struggle to think in recent memory of a bill with a longer title and I commend the member for—you know if he's going to get a member's bill through he might as well get as much through as possible right? So you get that into the title clause.But on a serious note the full title of the bill is the Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Government Agency Registration) (Overseas Travel Reporting) Amendment Bill which will become the amendment Act. But I did ask the member whether or not he did consider dropping the Government agency requirement or the Government agency part of the title. I think the title would still read perfectly sensibly if it was just the "Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Registration) (Overseas Travel Reporting) Amendment Act 2024". I think it would still read the same. I wonder whether or not—my understanding is that didn't come up at all in the Justice Committee; generally titles of the bills probably don't come up—but whether or not there's a particular reason why "Government Agency" has to be in the title of the bill.I think if a bill can be titled in a way which gives you a correct and accurate impression of the bill it reflects the purposes of the bill. It's not contrary to the intentions of the bill. It's not a frivolous title. I think if you can make those changes we should. Because we should always be concise and precise with our words. As one of our esteemed colleagues often says "words matter". And I'm sure that'll resonate with members to my left in the coalition. So if we can be somewhat precise in the titles of our bills I think that would be a good thing to do. I'm sure the member has got some advice from officials as to why that particular term is in there. It might be to do with the fact that there may be another register or registration not belonging to Government agencies that might apply and we wouldn't want to get the two Acts confused. So I thought I would just raise that as the very first point. And look I haven't got any good alternatives at the moment. I will rack my brain as to whether or not we should put an amendment up as to other forms of the title of the bill but I'll think about that in a second.Then the next one is that there's a very good reason why we changed the commencement date. I wonder whether other members can help remind me because I didn't pay enough attention to that. But perhaps I was distracted by other members' vigorous contributions from his caucus colleagues who are very much in support of his bill and I'm sure are raring to get up on their feet and congratulate him on the success that he's had in getting this bill through. But from my recollection there was a particular reason why we changed the commencement date. I wouldn't want the member to jump too far ahead of me and maybe some of my other colleagues could help remind me as well.But if the member could address that point around the title of the bill and why we added those extra words or those extra words are in I'd very much appreciate it.GREG O'CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): Thank you Mr Chair. Look in an ocean of legalese there's still room for common sense and that was actually to give the police—those administering the register—time to advise the offenders that there had been a change—which is only fair—and to implement the change and just to make sure it was done properly.The first question in relation to—well again at the risk of sort of we've always done it this way that was actually the title of the original bill that we're amending and the bill passed in 2016. So the Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Government Agency Registration) Act was the original bill. So naturally as an amendment we keep the name of the original bill in there."