Customs and Excise (Joint Border Management Information Sharing and Other Matters) Amendment Bill

The House is in Committee. Kia ora tātou, nō reira e te Whare, e ngā iwi, e ngā reo, e ngā hau e whā, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa. Good afternoon, honourable members. The House is in Committee for further consideration of the Customs and Excise (Joint Border Management Information Sharing and Other Matters) Amendment Bill, and consideration of the Building Amendment Bill (No 3). Members, we move first to the Customs and Excise (Joint Border Management Information Sharing and Other Matters) Amendment Bill, and when we last considered this bill the Minister of Customs had moved Supplementary Order Paper 194 dividing the bill. For the sake of clarification, I call on the Minister to move that motion again now.

I move, That the Committee divide the bill into the Customs and Excise Amendment Bill and the Biosecurity Amendment Bill, pursuant to Supplementary Order Paper 194.

The question is that the motion be agreed to. I will report this bill without amendment, and so divided, presently. Members, we now move to the Building Amendment Bill—

💬 Chris Hipkins: I raise a point of order, Mr Chairperson. I think you might have neglected to put the vote on that matter. The custom is that you ask whether members are in favour of, or opposed to, a question before you put it.

The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson): I did move that the motion be agreed to. [Interruption] I am sorry; I will move it, then. All those in favour please say Aye.

💬 Hon Gerry Brownlee: Hold on, you can’t have bad process. They either know the rules or they don’t.

The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson): Order! I am on my feet. I am going from the transcript here. I accept that I made a misjudgment, an error, because I just said that the question is that the motion be agreed to. I should have also said “All those in favour please say Aye, to the contrary, No.”, and I did not. All those in favour please say Aye, to the contrary, No. The Ayes have it. I will report this bill without amendment, and so divided, presently.

Motion agreed to.

Bill to be reported without amendment presently.