Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura (remote): Thank you Madam Chair. Gosh that was a very good summation by the Minister and I thought he could have probably done it in about three minutes but anyway it was a good contribution. This bill goes back a very long way. In fact I note that the Law Commission first reported to the then Minister for the Law Commission which would have been probably myself in 2013 on the need for this to be done and what we've seen is that it is a bill that has the full support of the House but it is also a bill that's had a tremendous amount of input from those interested in incorporated societies. It's relatively interesting to hear that there are 124000 of those. Of those many of them will be tennis clubs they may be rugby clubs or they might be volunteer groups. They are generally run by people who put a lot of effort into their communities who add a lot of value and the last thing they want is to be in a situation where they get themselves into trouble when they're just trying to do the right thing. I think that's why it's really important to have their saving revisions in the bill that the Minister has referred to so that people can in fact continue with their voluntary work and contribute to their communities without feeling that they're under the gun. Of course as with all societies organisations companies there are going to be disputes and so it's very good to see the sort of level of dispute resolution that is being allowed for here. This is a bill that deals with the procedures for dealing with conflicts of interest which back in 1998 was probably not something that people took that seriously. But obviously now they do and rightly so. It's a bill that is going to allow a difference of treatment depending on the size of the society in terms of their assets and also their income. I note that the balance date for each of the two preceding accounting periods—the current assets of a society less than $50000 will in fact enable that society to be treated as a small society and therefore not have such stringent responsibilities. I think that's a very sensible thing. No doubt a future Parliament will decide that that limit will need to be raised again as we see it has been over the years where whatever figure that Parliament sets we tend to end up having to revisit it not very long afterwards. It's really good to see that the whole of Parliament has worked so well on this. The select committee has clearly made the changes that the submitters have asked for and at the same time recognised that it is important that whenever anyone donates to such organisations or they are part of them they have a right to be able to have a say about what happens in the activities in those organisations. As a lawyer I know I've acted for incorporated societies over the years before I came to Parliament. It was certainly and is still a very difficult piece of legislation to navigate under the 1998 Act particularly in today's world. Things have changed and it's very good to see this sort of—right let's say cross-party agreement on being able to fix some of the things that need fixing. It may also be—this long passage of the bill—something to do with the fact that it's not particularly politically sensitive. That's a shame but the good thing is no one's ever going to accuse Parliament of rushing this legislation through and no one's going to accuse the Government of pushing it through under urgency. I'm very happy to support the bill. Thank you Madam Chair.