Kanongata'a-Suisuiki Anahila; Dean JacquiBUILDING (BUILDING PRODUCTS AND METHODS MODULAR COMPONENTS AND OTHER MATTERS) AMENDMENT BILLSecond ReadingDebate resumed from 16 March.ANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI (Labour): Kia ora Madam Speaker. It's an honour and a privilege to stand in this House to make a contribution especially to the second reading of the Building (Building Products and Methods Modular Components and Other Matters) Amendment Bill. I'd like to thank the Minister for Building and Construction the Hon Poto Williams for her leadership in leading the tool kit that the Government has to help their housing supply. She's progressing major changes to New Zealand's building laws the biggest building changes since 2004—so that's 17 years. So I just acknowledge the Minister in leading the building system legislative reform programme.I'd like to acknowledge the chair of the Environment Committee the Hon Eugenie Sage and the rest of the hard-working members of the select committee which I'm part of—the Environment Committee—in the consideration of this bill. Their contribution as a new member to that committee I can say was really valuable.Of course I want to acknowledge the 93 submitters who'd written submissions and came and gave us all evidence. I particularly liked the submission of PrefabNZ because their submission—I commend them on acronyms. I know that it's late in the afternoon on a Thursday but I will come back to the submission and the definition of acronyms because I know that it will add value to your knowledge on the Building (Building Products and Methods Modular Components and Other Matters) Amendment Bill. Before then the majority of the submissions agreed to the core of the bill which is what the bill is trying to achieve. So I will start my contribution about the bill Part 1. So what does the bill do? So Part 1 amends the Building Act. The first modification is amending clause 2(2)(b) to change the commencement date from 12 months to 15 months after the date of Royal assent for most clauses. This will ensure that sufficient time is provided for the development of regulations required to implement these changes to be developed and consulted on of course. A number of amendments have been made to the product clauses where amendments were made to clarify the circumstances in which a building consent involving a modular component would need to be processed in 10 working days. Inserting new section 48(1A)(aa) specifying special circumstances—this would apply when a building consisted entirely of a single modular component and had been manufactured by a single certified manufacturer. So the bill as I said before has made amendments to the modular component manufacturing scheme. I know that it's difficult to listen to these terminologies on a Thursday so I would just jump into the submission of PrefabNZ where they submitted on the acronyms.I liked it because I thought yeah I've never read submissions where they spent two pages on acronyms. So let's go there. I'm going to read it because really it's word for word. So comments on acronyms. They said PC": product certificate—easily understood. "PCB": product certificate body. The body implies a group of people not a single person. They suggested that we change it from "PCB" to "PCP" which is we suggested a person not a board. So instead of it being PCB they would like it to be PCP. Anyway "PC" schemes is the product certification schemes. They also suggested that "MMC" which is the modern methods of constructions be changed to something called "awesome"—"OSM"—and that is because they are suggesting the more appropriate moniker would be off site manufacture which is "OSM". For me that says "awesome". Anyway the bill talks about all these acronyms—MCM modular component manufacturer; MCMC modular component manufacturer certification; MCMCB modular component manufacture certification body; MCMC accreditation body. Yeah. So this is the reason why they had to put a submission of two pages just on acronyms. I'm new to the Environment Committee and I'm also new to the modular component manufacture certification body. So I really felt like that deserved a mention in the House—two pages of a submission on acronyms—and I want to acknowledge PrefabNZ for that. I do commend all the submitters all 93 submitters the work of officials. I know that it is a hard-working committee. I may not agree with most of them but it's a hard-working committee. And I commend the Building (Building Products and Methods Modular Components and Other Matters) Amendment Bill to the House. Malo.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): The next call is a split call—five minutes."