A ballot for one member's bill was held today, and the following bill was drawn:
- Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Harm Minimisation) Amendment Bill (Chlöe Swarbrick)
Swarbrick's bill implements a number of past recommendations from government agencies and advisory bodies which for some reason (cough big booze money cough) have remained unimplemented. One of these is to remove a special-purpose appeal chain over territorial alcohol policies, which is something I am wary of. OTOH, the way that appeal process works is by preventing the policies from ever coming into effect, which seems to frustrate the law, and general appeal rights such as judicial review remain. So this would mean that territorial authorities actually get to make a policy (which can then be judicially reviewed), rather than stopping them from doing so.
There were only 61 bills in the ballot today.
