Hon BILL ENGLISH (Deputy Leader—National) Link to this
I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I wonder whether the Minister of Justice might want to correct an answer—this being the first opportunity to do so. She told the House that she would give an interpretation of clause 80(d) before the Electoral Finance Bill is passed. The statement of business that the Leader of the House gave does not refer at all to the third reading of that bill. We presume that the third reading will not occur, in that case, until next year—unless the Leader of the House changes his statement of business. So now would be a good opportunity for the Minister of Justice to tell us, in the light of the fact that the Government is not planning to have the third reading of the bill in the next 10 days, when she will give us that interpretation.