Brooking RachelRACHEL BROOKING (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. Like Tim van de Molen the member that's just been speaking I'm also very excited to be talking on and about the Building (Building Products and Methods Modular Components and Other Matters) Amendment Bill.Hon Member: Long name.RACHEL BROOKING: It is a long name and I'm going to talk a little bit about some of the acronyms that are used in the Act and some of the processes around the prefabrication which I think is so important. But first I really want to start by saying one of the reasons why I'm so excited is that in my previous life I worked in a law firm that did a lot of work for local government in particular. So of course when the then Minister the Hon Jenny Salesa—who was just in the Chair but has vacated now—was the Minister she really had that wide-ranging process for people to submit on how to improve our building legislation. Now this has come from part of that so it's great to be involved and I'm involved in my role on the select committee. Unfortunately I wasn't on the Environment Committee last term when they heard all the submissions but I understand that they were very in-depth and well considered by the select committee. So I thank the select committee members of this current Environment Committee and of previous select committees and I know there's a number of members across the rows.What I really want to talk about tonight is the prefabrication and off-site manufacturing that's called the non-traditional building methods that this bill is really trying to help encourage. So it's doing that by producing this voluntary scheme for modular component manufacturers and for faster building consents and that is a good thing. There's a lot of prefab builders—or you can't call them builders really. Manufacturers of prefabrication have been held up by the Building Act as it currently stands because they're making these components off site so the normal checks that the Building Act currently provides for don't fit neatly with that prefabrication. Prefabrication is going to help us as a country deal with our housing crisis and that supply side. You know we heard today that we need to build more houses. In the House we heard as well that the Government's doing a lot to support investment in the trades and training and apprentices. We heard Minister Hipkins say at question time today that many many new training spots are in that construction industry. This is a good thing. The future Resource Management Act reforms they'll be a help as well although they're longer off than this particular help.So the Building Act has needed a hand to get on with the prefabrication and we're doing that here now. The bill establishes a new regime in new Subpart 7A in clause 7. This is to deal with the prefabrication that the previous speaker and I have just been talking about. But we don't call it prefabrication; we call it modular component manufacturing and so there's quite a detailed scheme in the bill that I'll talk a little bit about. Subpart 7A and the other parts and other clauses of the Act are relevant as well to make the current Building Act line up with these provisions but basically the new scheme is all in this new Subpart 7A. So there'll be a modular component manufacturer certification accreditation body—that is a lot of words so in the bill this is referred to as the MCMC accreditation body. Now the MCMC accreditation body can accredit and audit a person as a modular component manufacturer certification body so that is an MCMCB. So that's two steps and we're going to get to some more acronyms involving MCs. But the point here is that the MCMC accreditation body has some powers over the MCMC certification body.Angie Warren-Clark: That's right—say that again.RACHEL BROOKING: Thank you. I'm going to come up with some more MCs I promise.Hon Member: Is it MC Hammer?RACHEL BROOKING: Yeah no I'm not MC Hammer—thank you though for the reference. So the accreditation body they can suspend the certification body and there's a process established in this Subpart 7A for that and it can involve the chief executive. Then the MCMCB can certify a person as a modular component manufacturer so that's an MCM. How this goes about is that if the components can comply with the building code and other requirements if there are any prescribed by legislation then they can become a modular component manufacturer. So again this part of the bill establishes provisions for audit for suspension and for revocation of that certification. Then the next step in this hierarchy of MCs is that the certified MCM—so that's the modular component manufacturer—can become registered. Now in its certification of that registration it's limited as to what they can do. Once again this new subpart introduces provisions for audit of that MCM suspension if they're not complying with matters and revocation of that certification. Then that registered MCM—and I'll remind you that the MCM in this case is the modular component manufacturer so it's the person building the prefab—can issue a certificate relating to compliance with the building code and that's the trick that's going to help us get more prefab buildings around our country. The MCM scheme rules can be found at new section 272ZG. They can be made by the chief executive including how to evaluate MCMs and rules that supplement regulations. So there's a process here to establish the rules and that includes public notice submissions and then those submissions being considered and some justification for those rules. Now if we go to new section 272ZG MCM scheme rules" in clause 71 there's a nice little definition that I thought—well a nice clause that helps with all these MCMCs. So this section is talking about scheme rules and how they can be made and I've just gone over that very briefly but then at subsection (3) it says "In this section 'scheme party' means any of the following:"—this is useful—"(a) the MCMC accreditation body: (b)"—[Bell rung]—"an accredited MCMCB:"—Hon Scott Simpson: Thank goodness! RACHEL BROOKING: —"(c) a registered MCMCB: (d) a certified MCM: (e) a registered MCM." I think that's very helpful too because this language is complicated and repetitious in terms of the use of the word "building" and we've got definitions of "building product" and "building method" and the members across will be pleased that I won't go through those in detail. But it's very important that we understand this language because it's powerful. This is really going to help the building of houses more quickly in New Zealand by enabling this prefabrication. Although the legislation has a lot of acronyms we can get through it and it's all totally logical as hopefully I've outlined today. So with that I'm very happy to commend this bill to the House."