Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Bill (No 2)

I seek leave for it to be an instruction to the Committee of the whole House that it take the Committee stage of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Bill (No 2) as a single debate, with the relevant questions put at the end.

The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Marian Hobbs): Leave is sought to do this. Is there any objection to that course of action? There being none, that instruction shall be given.

In Committee

Clauses 1 to 5

The question was put that the following amendments in the name of Metiria Turei to clause 4 be agreed to:

to omit subsection (2A)(c)(ii) in subclause (1) and substitute:

(ii) that is consistent with the purpose and environmental principles of the Act; and

to add to subsection (2A) in subclause (1) the following paragraph:

the Minister may not increase a total allowable catch under subsection (2A).