Motions — Abortion Legislation Committee—Establishment

on behalf of the Leader of the House: I move, That this House establish a committee to consider and report to it the Abortion Legislation Bill and any associated business that may be referred to it; that the committee consist of seven members to be nominated by parties to the Speaker as follows: New Zealand National two, New Zealand Labour two, New Zealand First one, Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand one, and ACT New Zealand one; and that the committee have the authority to meet at any time while the House is sitting, except during oral questions, during any evening on a day on which there has been a sitting of the House, on a Friday in a week in which there has been a sitting of the House, and outside the Wellington region during a sitting of the House, despite Standing Orders 191, 193, and 194(1) and (3).

Motion agreed to.