Urgency

I move, That urgency be accorded to the remaining stages of the Education and Training Bill; the International Crimes and International Criminal Court Amendment Bill; the Public Service Legislation Bill; the Urban Development Bill; the Forests (Regulation of Log Traders and Forestry Advisers) Amendment Bill; and the Rates Rebate (Statutory Declarations) Amendment Bill; the first reading and referral to select committee of the Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill; the second reading of the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Bill; and the remaining stages of the Equal Pay Amendment Bill; the Dairy Industry Restructuring Amendment Bill (No 3); the Infrastructure Funding and Financing Bill; the Land Transport (NZTA) Legislation Amendment Bill; the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification (Commercial Video on-Demand) Amendment Bill; the Support Workers (Pay Equity) Settlements Amendment Bill; Te Ture Whenua Maori (Succession, Dispute Resolution, and Related Matters) Amendment Bill; and the Taumata Arowai—the Water Services Regulator Bill.

Tim van de Molen: Is that all?

Yeah, that’s it. Ha!

💬 SPEAKER: Don’t challenge him!

This urgency motion continues to reclaim the 60 or so hours of Government time in the House that was lost during the alert levels 3 and 4 of our COVID response. With the House soon to be out of action for a couple of months during the election campaign, there is a need to ensure that significant legislation isn’t further delayed and that as much of the programme is passed as possible.

The urgency motion includes 12 bills that will have their committee stages and third readings remaining, two with only third readings, one first reading, and one second reading. No bill will go through more than two stages in the urgency motion, and a common feature of many of the bills in the motion is that they bring about significant change in their sector and a delay in their passing would mean preparations for the implementation would be frustrated.