to change the name. Nothing in the member's contribution
member's contribution actually related to the consequential
amendments in Part 2
and, as a result, there's nothing to respond
to. Simeon Brown. Thank
you, Mr Chair. For the new
minister of open government, I thought that was a
shocking performance trying to
hide the details of this
bill from the New Zealand public, and he should be
doing a far better job than trying
to shove things through in
the depths of the evening and dark of
night, when the public
of New Zealand have a right to know
what this parliament is passing and
what the legislation actually means. And
when legislation has consequential
amendments, that means it
changes other pieces of legislation
as well. So we're not just looking
other pieces of legislation as well. So we're not just looking at the
Council of Aotearoa New Zealand) Amendment
Council of Aotearoa New Zealand)
about the State Sector Act, the Privacy
about the State Sector Act, the
legislation are being changed by this piece of legislation which
we here in parliament
are looking at tonight. Mr Chair, this comes
back to the point around Chris Hipkins'
elevation to the role of minister
of open Government. I just want
to really congratulate him
for taking onboard that new role, because
he needs to take it seriously not just
in whatever role
that actually has, but also in every single piece of
legislation that he is progressing
in this parliament.
..as the Leader of the House and as of Minister
of Education. Mr Chair,
I'd like to refer to what these changes are. The
consequential amendments
consequential amendments that are being made to other
consequential amendments that are
firstly, the Education Council rules 2016 are renamed from
the commencement of the
section the Education Council Rules 2016 are
called the Teaching
Council Rules. Every reference and any enactment in
any document in relation to
the Education Council Rules 2016 must,
unless the contest otherwise
requires, must be read
as a reference to the Teaching Council
Rules 2016. My question to the
minister is
Rules 2016. My question to the
he consider may be raised that it could
he consider may be raised that it
guidance could he provide to the House around
guidance could he provide to the
important to know what's been suggested by the reference
to
he give some examples as to what that might
he give some examples as to what
have some examples in mind which he could readily ask them to provide to
him. ..so that the House
could be a little bit more clear as to what
we are considering tonight and
potentially
potentially putting into legislation. Clause 9 talks about
consequential amendments to other
enactments and amends the enactments
specified in Schedule 4. That's
the Ombudsman Act. Basically
it's changing the name
from the Education Council to the Teaching Council. So
it's making
it's making an inconsequential change. We can talk about how
inconsequential this piece of
legislation is, but we have
canvassed those arguments
in depth this evening. Unless the context
otherwise requires, every reference
in this Act or any other enactment
to the Education Council must be
read as reference to the
Teaching Council. The Education
Council of Aotearoa New Zealand must be read as
a reference to the
Teaching Council of Aotearoa. Again, we have there in
Clause 9, Subsection 2,
it says,
a very broad term that's being used
officials looked at what all those other enactments might
studied law and I had a look at the library and all of the pieces of
legislation that were sitting
in the library, once a year, someone came
around and they had to go in there
and they had to tape over all of
the legislation books, all of
the changes which parliament had
made. So, you know,
the legislation that we make
we make and the consequential amendments which are made have an
impact not just on the law, but on
the law books. And
that has to be changed not just online, but in all
of those different places. So,
have the officials got
a real awareness as to the actual
impact that this legislation will have,
how many references are being made
to the Education Council,
Education Council, which will have to be changed because of Part 2 of
minister to give us some examples. Get on his feet
minister to give us some examples.
before. Get on his feet again and give us some examples as to
what these consequential amendments
might mean. Talk about what the context
otherwise requires give us some
examples around what that is,
and maybe even ask your officials
to provide you a few. Sorry,
the minister a few. I'm sure they've
thought very deeply about that. And
give some clarity
to this House. What we want is some
openness and
As the new Minister of Open Government, that's what he should
be giving. I call the Hon Nikki Kaye.
Mr Chair, I'm delighted to have a
call on this important part of the
bill, the consequential amendments
and other enactments. I want
the minister to answer
some questions for me around this. If you go back
to the departmental report
and you look at the submissions, some people
might be listening to this debate
and