Integrity Sport and Recreation Bill

This bill establishes a new independent Crown entity called the Integrity Sport and Recreation Commission. The Commission's key functions will be to promote, advise, and educate on integrity issues within the sector, engage with participants within the sector on integrity issues, develop and issue integrity codes, prescribe policies and procedures for complaints and disputes, implement the World Anti-Doping Code, and investigate suspected breaches of integrity codes and threats to integrity.

Voting method

Party voting: Parties decided whether or not to support this bill and cast votes on behalf of all their MPs.

Procedural notes

• Urgency used: This bill was progressed through one or more stages using urgency. Urgency allows the Government to fast-track the legislative process by extending the sitting hours of the House of Representatives and skipping the select committee stage of a bill, and allows bills to pass through more than one stage per sitting day.
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Bill text: Integrity Sport and Recreation Bill (legislation.govt.nz)

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