Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill

Members, we come first to the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill. When we were last considering this bill, we were debating Part 1. This is the debate on clauses 4 to 53 and the Schedule, “Amendments to principal Act”. Once again, the question is that Part 1 stand part.

Before the committee broke for the lunch break, I had a question in relation to a Government Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) that has a reference to herbal smoking products. I can inform the committee that the bill as originally drafted included in the definition herbal smoking products within the scope of the bill. The reason for that is to stop herbal smoking products becoming another way for nicotine to be added to those products—they just need to be notified under the bill. What the SOP does is tidy up the bill to make sure that there is time for those products to be notified and that aligns with the other notification provisions put through the bill, otherwise the distributors of those products would have to comply immediately, but there is a phase-in process for that.

The question is that the Minister’s amendments to Part 1 set out on Supplementary Order Paper 313 be agreed to.

The question is that Dr Shane Reti’s amendment to clause 13 set out on Supplementary Order Paper 312 be agreed to.

The question is that Dr Shane Reti’s amendment inserting new clause 49A set out on Supplementary Order Paper 315 be agreed to.