Henderson Emily; Rurawhe AdrianDr EMILY HENDERSON (Labour—Whangārei): I rise and unfortunately I am unable to support this bill. I suppose timing is as they say everything and the time for this bill has not come for the reasons outlined by my colleagues Ms Andersen and Ms Williams already. I did a little digging and I went back and I discovered that the original Act here seems to have been—because somewhat appropriately this is a second-hand bill in more ways than one. The original bill is the Pawnbrokers Bill of 1908. Now this was updated by the Labour Government of 2004 and in that case the review and the update was more than overdue. If I can just point your attention to one item one of the things that that bill brought forward by the then Labour justice Minister Phil Goff did was to update the list of things that have to be held on to for a period before they are considered safe to sell. Under the previous Act it was furs suits and gramophones and it was felt at that time that some items such as compact discs computers and DVD players might be more appropriately on the list. In that case it was a change whose time had come. In this case it is not because the compliance costs it will put on our small businesses who are already trying and struggling are too high.So when I look at my own little town and I think of a little village that's attached to the northern outskirts called Hikurangi which is one of my favourite second-hand shopping expeditions and I think of the small literally mum and dad businesses that are running up there—Village Vintage Treasure should you be up that way is an excellent place to go to. The compliance costs on them were this bill to come into effect are beyond what I think could be borne not to mention the smaller businesses around there which deal in goods which are necessary to my small and impoverished community. The compliance costs to buy a computer system—possibly not the right system for their budgets because they will have to comply with police—the unforgiving timescale of three months to implement and then the serious penalty of up to $10k for failing to comply means that any time the police change my little business in Hikurangi is going to have to change too. It is also unforgiving for the police who are going to have to roll out a standard system across the country nationally—again within a very tight time frame. It is expensive. It is unrealistic.More practical is to wait for the right time for a bill such as this to allow small businesses to move into the digital age at their own pace and we are giving them in this Government assistance to do so. I would point you to the Digital Boost Program announced in the Budget which is going to help them get there. There is money there for 50000 small businesses and microbusinesses to upskill in digital systems. They will then have to afford their systems. It's going to take time. We are hugely behind our police and trying to support them in every way we can to do the incredibly difficult and huge job that they have before them—$450 million in investment is not a small business. We have given them the biggest workforce they have ever had: a 14000 police workforce. I have spoken to my local police hui regarding crime and they say that yes they are as well-resourced as they have ever been. That includes two community police officers in little Hikurangi to the community's great relief where they are finding that—just as my colleague Ms Arena Williams said—the fact of just regular coppers on the beat there is making all the difference to crime in their community.Mr Bayly's bill is early. It is too early. It is going to impose burdens on people who are already on margins that are too tight. We need to allow these businesses to survive to learn and to go on when they are ready to adopt digital systems to thrive as we all hope they will. In this Government we're giving them assistance to do that but the time is not now for this bill and therefore I cannot commend it to the House. DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired.