Huo RaymondRAYMOND HUO (Labour): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. This is one of the 23 or so bills that the Justice Committee had considered. As a former chair of the Justice Committee I want to once again thank and acknowledge the officials advisers and submitters. I'd like to particularly acknowledge the former Attorney-General Christopher Finlayson and also the current Attorney-General David Parker for their leadership in this very important portfolio area and also acknowledge the Minister Jenny Salesa for her contributions earlier at the bills' third reading. As my former Justice Committee member the Hon Mark Mitchell acknowledged this is technical bipartisan legislation that was conceived under the previous Government. In a similar vein I think the Justice Committee did enjoy a strong sense of collegiality and we did enjoy a strong sense of collegiality before the arrival of one particular National Opposition MP. That Opposition MP should be very proud of himself and enjoy himself because the end result was he finally got rid of me as the chair of the Justice Committee by resorting to racial profiling.Now back to these bills. These are technically driven bills and the committee did—[Interruption] Well if you have no idea about that calm down just review some history or your colleagues could help you to enlighten whatever may be missing from that member's knowledge. Now back to this bill. These are technically driven bills and at the Justice Committee we did—Tim van de Molen: What's this? What's going on here? RAYMOND HUO: Well if you really want to know what's going on just check with your colleague because he leaked the internal voting process to the public and made up all these stories fabricated stories and sabotaged the Justice Committee's process. Hon Member: Oh! RAYMOND HUO: Well he should be very proud of himself. Tim van de Molen: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. There are some outrageous accusations being made by that member in this House which is totally out of line and brings this House into disrepute. TEMPORARY SPEAKER (Dr Shane Reti): Thank you. The member—Kieran McAnulty: It is entirely within both the Standing Orders and the Speakers' rulings for a speaker to respond to interjections from the other side which I believe the speaker is doing. He made a number of attempts to get back to the bill and then responded to interjections that were made. TEMPORARY SPEAKER (Dr Shane Reti): The member can speak to factual moments from the select committee but he will come back to the content of the bill. RAYMOND HUO: Thank you very much for your help Mr Speaker. Back to this bill—Tim van de Molen: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. Respectfully the member was making accusations that members on this side of the House were misleading lying and making false accusations which bring this House into disrepute. Those accusations need to be withdrawn and he should apologise. TEMPORARY SPEAKER (Dr Shane Reti): Thank you. I have taken this into account and brought the member back to factual recollections and factual statements at select committee and that's where it will rest at this point. RAYMOND HUO: Thank you very much. This bill—at the very centre of this bill—is about secondary legislation. As Minister Jenny Salesa in her earlier contribution has explained secondary legislation is very important because this is a new term in the Legislation Bill for all legislation made under lawmaking powers dedicated by Parliament or made under the royal prerogative. There are thousands of these kinds of secondary legislation made under different names and made by different organisations—for example regulations rules orders and notices. I recall that at the Justice Committee we considered quite a number of factors in the submissions talking about how to define secondary legislation under different names in different contexts and made by different organisations. Back to this legislation's history it was introduced in June 2017 and it received its first reading in December that year. The legislation rewrites and replaces the Legislation Act 2012 to bring together the law relating to legislation and to ensure that New Zealand law is easy to find use and understand. It will for the first time in New Zealand law identify clearly what secondary legislation is and therefore what this House's oversight is through the disallowance process. The secondary legislation that is drafted by the Parliamentary Counsel Office is easy to identify and is published on the New Zealand Legislation website along with Acts of Parliament. However secondary legislation drafted by over a hundred other agencies is often not easy to identify as legislation and it is published in a wide variety of other places. This impedes Parliament's ability to supervise the exercise of powers it has dedicated as well as New Zealand's ability to identify the law that applies to them. Without further ado I commend these bills to the House. Thank you Mr Speaker.