Brown Simeon; Parker DavidSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): Thank you Mr Chair. My question is in relation to new section 146B Weighted average speed limit between two detection points". It says "This section applies if more than 1 speed limit applies between 2 detection points on a length of road along which the average speed of a vehicle is to be calculated for the purposes of section 146A … The speed limit for this purpose"—and then there's a calculation for how that speed limit is going to be checked. Now the question I've got in relation to this clause: the Minister has been adamant in trying to tell the House that this will be used on State highways and not on local roads; it's basically the argument that the Minister's been trying to say—that Kiwis shouldn't have to worry about these being used where there's 30-kilometre-per-hour speed limits which have been blanketed through our suburbs. But now we've got to a point where it says here that effectively there could be multiple speed limits on a section of road and now we're going to have a weighted average speed limit which will apply. Now most parts of our State highway network generally have the same consistent speed limit along those parts. For instance if you travel out of Auckland between Auckland and Hamilton it's 110 most of the way. There is of course a portion where it is 100 then it goes to 110. So is the purpose of this section to put one at the Bombay Hills and then another one at Cambridge and then of course to weight it according to those? Or is it effectively to allow for this to be applied in more suburban environments where in that example you only have two speed limits 100 and 110 but in a more urban environment you may have 50 you might have a 60 then you might have 40—you might then have a 30. What is the intent of this clause? Because it is now appearing to the committee that it is actually more about actually just being able to be used everywhere rather than actually being limited as the Minister said to State highways. Now if it's to be limited to State highways—if that's the intent—why doesn't the Minister just put it in the bill and give New Zealanders that clarity? If the intention is to have it for every single road well then be honest with the public that that's the intention because the Minister from the chair said "It's predominantly for state highways". The legislation basically gives tools for these average weighted speed limits to basically be able to be used on any type of road. And the final question I've got is to understand how this then interacts with variable speed limits because of course some sections of State highway you drive past a school and occasionally—under the land transport setting of speed limit rule it requires all schools to have reduced speed limits; rural schools can obviously have a variable speed limit. Well if you're driving past a school is that going to take into account the variable speed limit by the average speed limit check? Will that take into account the time of day that the person is driving past the school and how will it know what time of day they actually drove past the school particularly if the average speed check is over a hundred or 200 kilometre length of distance? These issues matter and I look forward to the Minister's response to those questions.Hon DAVID PARKER (Minister of Transport): I've already addressed the issue as to it being an operational matter for the transport authority but I have repeated advice from officials that this will be predominantly State highways. In respect of the averaging system it is set out in clauses 146B 146C and 146D which includes publication of matters relating to the point-to-point average speed system were an average to be used."