Tolley Anne: Subordinate Legislation (Confirmation and Validation) Bill (No 2) — Second Reading Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTolley Anne: Subordinate Legislation (Confirmation and Validation) Bill (No 2) — Second Reading Third Reading[Sitting date: 10 December 2013. Volume:695;Page:15363. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon ANNE TOLLEY (Deputy Leader of the House) on behalf of theLeader of the House: I moveThat the Subordinate Legislation (Confirmation and Validation) Bill (No 2) be now read a second time. The bill confirms and validates 24 orders or regulations made under nine different Acts. The bill must be enacted by 31 December 2013 to avoid subordinate legislation lapsing. The bill was introduced on 29 July 2013 and was referred to the Regulations Review Committee on 6 August. The committee asked the six relevant Government agencies responsible for administering the legislation to explain why confirmation or validation of the orders is warranted. The committee was satisfied with the responses it received and presented its report on 27 September recommending that the bill be passed without amendment.The committee regularly notes that the current process for considering Subordinate Legislation (Confirmation and Validation) Bills allows for only limited scrutiny and has recommended that these bills be introduced earlier in the year than has been usual in recent years. The Government was very conscious of this and introduced this bill in July with its first reading in August. The Government will continue to work to improve the process for considering this type of bill when we progress the next Subordinate Legislation (Confirmation and Validation) Bill in 2014. I thank the select committee for its thoughtful and prompt consideration of this bill. In particular I put on record my thanks to the former member the Hon Lianne Dalziel for her work over the years on this committee.There are 24 orders or regulations listed in the bill that are to be confirmed or validated. They have been made under nine different Acts. I shall provide a brief summary of each instrument confirmed or validated by the bill for the benefit of the House. Four orders made under the Biosecurity Act 1993 are confirmed. These relate to a levy on kiwifruit grown in New Zealand for export; amendments to two orders to refer to the new management agencyTBfree New Zealand; and changes to industry cost recovery for costs associated with the joint border management system. Second an order under the Civil Aviation Act 1990 updating passenger levies and participation levies payable by aviation operators to the Civil Aviation Authority is confirmed.Ten commodity levies are confirmed. These impose levies relating to peonies; apples and pears; Foveaux Strait dredge oysters;pāua; rock lobster; onions; potatoes; vegetables and fruit; avocadoes; and mussels oysters and salmon. Each levy is payableto an industry organisation to finance activities of benefit to the industry. Three orders made under the Customs and Excise Act 1996 are confirmed. Prohibitions regarding the importation of trout and trout products are continued. Rates of excise and excise equivalent duties imposed on tobacco products and alcoholic beverages are adjusted annually to reflect the movement in the Consumers Price Index. This bill confirms the duties that were imposed on 1 January 2013 and 1 July 2013 respectively. Regulations under the Gambling Act 2003 specifying the problem gambling levy rates for the period 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2016 are confirmed and one order for confirmation provides for registration and licensing of motor vehicles under the Land Transport Act 1998.Two orders made pursuant to the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Act 2001 and the Social Security Act 1964 are confirmed. One of the orders increases the rates of the young parent payment for a single young person with a dependent child aged 16 to 17 years and living with or being financially supported by a parent or guardian. The other order increases most benefits pensions and allowances to reflect a 0.61 percent increase in the New Zealand Consumers Price Index from the December 2011 quarter to the December 2012 quarter. It also increases the amounts of funeral grants payable under the Social Security Act in respect of people who die on or after 1 April 2013. The order also makes some further supplementary increases to the level of superannuation.One set of regulations made under the Road User Charges Act 2012 is confirmed. These regulations specify rates of charges for distance licences for road-user charges vehicles and in respect of additional weight carried by combination vehicles operating under an additional licence.Finally the bill confirms an order increasing war pensions lump sum payments and allowances in line with an increase in the Consumers Price Index. The order also makes further supplementary increases to the level of veterans pensions to honour the Government’s commitments in relation to the level of veterans pensions. Thank you.