IN THE HOUSE: First reading, Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill, September 24, 2009
23 Sep 2009
Climate Change Issues Minister Nick Smith: Mr Speaker, I move that the Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill now be read a first time.
At the appropriate time I intend to move that the Bill be referred to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee with an instruction that the Committee report finally to the House on or before 16 November 2009, and that the Committee have authority to meet at any time while the House is sitting, except during oral questions, and 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 to meet outside the Wellington region during a sitting of the House despite Standing Orders 187, 189 and 190(1)(b) and (c).
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