{"id":505338,"date":"2026-07-02T00:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/505338\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T00:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:52:09","slug":"former-minister-andrew-bayly-steps-down-from-chairing-justice-select-committee-to-let-young-people-take-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/505338\/","title":{"rendered":"Former minister Andrew Bayly steps down from chairing Justice Select Committee to let \u2018young people take over\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a range of business currently before the committee, including legislation on changing the Policing Act, trespass laws and introducing the Government\u2019s move-on orders. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll be a good opportunity for a person to have a go at trying to manage the committee. It\u2019s a busy committee,\u201d Bayly said. <\/p>\n

\"BayBay of Plenty MP Tom Rutherford is the new chairman. Photo \/ Ayla Yeoman<\/p>\n

Bayly has now moved to the Petitions Select Committee. He is replaced on the Justice Committee by National\u2019s Paulo Garcia. <\/p>\n

He said he had received complimentary comments in the House on Tuesday about his performance as chair, including from Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan and NZ First\u2019s Jamie Arbuckle.<\/p>\n

With the election scheduled for November 7, Parliament is expected to wrap up for this term on September 24. <\/p>\n

The Herald revealed last month that Bayly <\/a>had decided not to stand for Parliament at the election after previously saying he would consider seeking a list-only position for National. <\/p>\n

He and his wife had decided he would not seek a list position, after previously also deciding he wouldn\u2019t seek re-election in his Port Waikato electorate. <\/p>\n

Bayly was a minister in Christopher Luxon\u2019s Government until a series of issues led him to resign. <\/p>\n

Jamie Ensor is the NZ Herald\u2019s chief political reporter, based in the press gallery at Parliament. He was previously a TV reporter and digital producer in the Newshub press gallery office. He was a finalist in 2025 for Political Journalist of the Year at the Voyager Media Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a range of business currently before the committee, including legislation on changing the Policing Act, trespass…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20251,169011,252037,37462,29136,6097,5903,2740,71,5511,6148,29309,6722,3234,3556,111,43,139,69,1523,17317,384,92144,42327,3057,199,61,4741],"class_list":["post-505338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-andrew","tag-bayly","tag-chairing","tag-chairman","tag-committee","tag-down","tag-election","tag-former","tag-from","tag-just","tag-justice","tag-let","tag-minister","tag-months","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-parliaments","tag-people","tag-select","tag-stepped","tag-steps","tag-take","tag-to","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}