Brooking RachelRACHEL BROOKING (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. Like the other speakers I'm very pleased to be speaking on the Secondary Legislation Bill. Like the other speakers that we've heard on this bill I'm on the Regulations Review Committee and what a great committee that is.Greg O'Connor: Sought after!RACHEL BROOKING: The sought-after Regulations Review Committee. Now that brings me to the term regulations". What are regulations and how do they relate to what we're now calling secondary legislation? Regulations—we all know they impact our lives. We were hearing today in question time a question from the Greens to the Government about the Resource Management Act national environmental standard regarding intensive winter grazing. That is an important potential—well it is an important regulation that will come into force or may come into force at some point. Whether it does or not goes to the point that it's important and affects our lives. So we really need these regulations to—we need to be able to exercise them as Chris Penk just spoke about and they need some clarity around them. So this bill is going to help with that. But it's not just this bill; it's also the Legislation Act 2019 and the mix of the two. So what is secondary legislation? Chris Penk: I'd hope you know by now.RACHEL BROOKING: Ha ha! Well it's not primary legislation. It is defined in that Legislation Act that I just referred to and that the Minister has also referred to and it's amended by this bill. So it's defined as something that is identified in the Act that creates it as secondary and in a form set out in what will be the new Schedule 1A. So that also brings us to the term "legislation". What does that mean? In the Legislation Act it is defined as meaning both an Act and secondary legislation. Instruments on the other hand are a little bit different and they include secondary legislation and these other instruments that we heard the Minister and Chris Penk just speaking about. So what's happened in the process of making this ginormous bill with very many schedules—and I thank the people who've done this work so that baby lawyers in the future can identify regulations easily and general members of the public. So there's been a decision made about what remains an instrument and what is this secondary legislation—amazing analysis. What those people did at Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO) and other officials is they asked: does this instrument have legislative effect? So how do you tell if something has legislative effect? Is it something that makes legal rules that apply generally or does it apply to the public or a class of the public or does it create a framework that applies again and again? So what's happened is that PCO has gone through and identified what things have some sort of legislative effect and therefore should be classed as secondary legislation and that is what we see in the many schedules to this bill.Of course the bill itself only has six clauses to it which is interesting and if you exclude the schedules it's very short. As the Minister said it inserts some common phrases that will go into the various different Acts to identify regulation that is secondary. We can see that at clause 3 of the bill and at clause 3 it's got an example of what will happen to one of the pieces of secondary legislation that is identified in the schedule. What happens is that when something has been identified as secondary legislation in one of these schedules a little note is inserted at the end of those various different sections. So in the example it is relating to the Corrections Act and they insert in the example at subclause 3 "(3) An order under this section is secondary legislation. (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements)." So that makes it very clear to the reader that what they're looking at is secondary legislation or what they will be looking at is secondary legislation and that they can go and find that hopefully on the Legislation New Zealand website.So well done to all those staff who have gone through all that legislation all the regulations all the instruments and the things with all the different names and have identified what has legislative effect what should be well published and well understood by New Zealanders. I am happy to commend this bill to the House."