Contract Act. Contracts reknewed after 31 March will have the
retention schemes
retention schemes applied to it. The flexible and
flexible and pragmatic ways of permitting other
permitting other means for holding of retentions monies, it is a
great piece of
piece of ledgion, Mr Speaker. I command it to the House.
SPEAKS
SPEAKS TE REO MAORI
Mr
Mr Speaker, I am pleased to take a call on this,
the third reading of the
Housing) Amendment Bill, Regulatory Systems
(Workplace Relations) Amendment
Bill and
and say that Labour supports the third
third and final reading of these bills, sir. Just to
remind us, these are three Omnibus
Bills or regulatory
regulatory bills amended to maintain and
and improve the effectiveness and efficiency
efficiency around regulatory systems, Mr
systems, Mr Speaker. It can include policy changes that
continuous improvements to repairs and
and maintenance of regulatory systems, but not significant
policy changes
statutory Amendment Bills, those that are designed for technical,
amendments. Sir, as a member of the
the Local Government, I am going to focus my contribution
on the building and Housing Bill, sir.
we had a very robust committee stage, sir.
stage, sir. We were allowed to debate, not only part by part, but
every single bill separate from each other
every single bill separate from each other and I do
want to note that, in particular, to the
housing Amendment Bill. We had one amendment
amendment to the Building Act 2006, which
which
the role of the territory authority, but
this particular bill, sir, was in the second part of the Unit Titles
Act 2010 where we saw
16 amendments and 16 amendments,
sir, we were able to have
to have clarification and improvements and
improvements and unit plans and body corporate
corporate operational rules and reassessment of ownership
and utility
utility interest, registration of ease and
ease and covenant and leases and licences
extraordinary general meetings. Sir, what I want to raise in my
contribution is
contribution is three particular submitters. Who I
believe raised very
select committee process, but found themselves
themselves outside the scope of this particular
particular bill and I do want to note them because I think these
submitters, as I
said, will become quite clear to members of this House.
The first submission,
submission, sir, came or was presented
of New Zealand. Essentially, they
supported the bill, in relation to the second part of this bill,
under the Unit
the Unit Titles Act, sir, they felt we could have gone a bit broader in
terms of
introducing dispute resolution regime.
regime. They talked extensively about
about a guidance material made available to body corporates.
The provisions
developments, particularly as clearly we have a housing shortage
in this country and we want to ensure if we want to build,
we want to
to remove barriers around stage development.
development. About the default body corporate
corporate operational rules, sir, and
and the process that must be followed
followed when a unit title development
development is split into two or more
more separate developments and so here is obviously an organisation
like the Property Council of New Zealand
Zealand that saw an opportunity to submit
submit to the select committee and to enhance a
around building and housing. Unfortunately,
Unfortunately, like I said, sir, it was
was found to be out of scope. The second
second submitter, sir, was Auckland Council. Now, Auckland
Council, sir, were
were asking for an extension of a wider
review of the Units Title Act. Order! When you were
are in a third reading
reading speech anything that has been ruled
been ruled out of scope in the committee
committee stage cannot be debated in substance.
substance. You can mention it but you
you can't go into detail about it and Iwill just
you can't go into detail about it and I will just refer you to
speakers' rules 137 1
included in the clause of the bill, a
a clause has been ruled out of order,
order, merits of the amendments have been ruled out
of committee, cannot be
but don't go into substance. Thank YOU,
but don't go into substance. Thank you, Mr Speaker. So in
mentioning the Auckland City Council warned
between the Unit Titles Act and the RMA
RMA seeking clarity around that and the third one, sir, was the Trance
Power Submission that talked
about NCEPC 34 around houses built
under trans
NCEPC 34 around houses built under trans powerlines. The
reason I wanted
wanted to draw the House's attention to that goes into my previous
point around the Units
Title Act Review 2016, sir, which talks about
a more comprehensive review of this
particular Act and
so I mention it because I
opportunity for, I guess, to eater take on board
submissions that submitters had put in to ensure that
the review that is currently going on will perhaps
factor some of the
concerns that people
people like Auckland Council, Transpower
Transpower and, of course, the Property
through this particular process, sir. When I
look at the purpose of mending these regulatory
systems, it is
is about improving our systems and so I only mention
about that was it would have been nice
nice to have heard from the minister at the
at the time and I did ask where are we
we up to with that review to give some
some assurances that people were making, I
making, I think, very useful submissions
process was getting heard by the Government.
raise that because I think we have got an opportunity
here in front of us
us to make sure there are regulatory systems in relation to building
and housing is as its most fitful
purpose for now, sir, and as we go
into the future.
I want to note that even
even though these amendments have been
been part of an ongoing commitment from
from the government, which we support,
support, the review and the timing of the review happening while
we are passing third legislation,
for me, just threw
opportunities which we could have lined up the
review with the reading of
bills that we have here today, sir. 30, happy
So, happy again that we are supporting
supporting the attempt by the Government
systems fit for purpose, sir. My point was
point was that I think, in terms of the housing building
one, there was potentially
potentially a lost opportunity and I do hope that the minister in
charge of the broader Unit
commend this bill to the House. Dr Parmjeet Parmar. Thank
you, Mr Speaker. I am taking a
very, very short call
systems Amendment Bill in its third reading. As we
know it is an Omnibus Bill and it
is to make changes in a few
few areas. All of the changes are small
small but they are important to make regulatory systems effective and
this is by
moving gaps and errors and
and inconsistencies in these locations. Yes, the