Penk ChrisCHRIS PENK (National—Kaipara ki Mahurangi): Thank you Madam Speaker. These are a few of my favourite things as someone once remarked. We've heard of seafarers' welfare and even more importantly the Regulations Review Committee so far in this debate so it's a good day for New Zealand. The Regulatory Systems (Transport) Amendment Bill is good as far as it goes. There have been some debates that I might venture—much broader in nature obviously than the bill. And that's been very interesting to hear—our colleagues of the ACT and Green Party exchanging views on the validity of among other things highways. The bill itself though is pretty mode-neutral. If I were feeling lazy at this time of the sitting week I would spend my whole time contributing merely by reading out all the different number of Acts that are amended. It is an omnibus bill. I will spare everyone that pleasure but I will note that transport civil aviation port and even submarine modes of transport are covered. But I'm being a bit cheeky and getting overexcited probably by the mention of the Regulations Review Committee because—submarine cables in fact and pipelines so a form of transport but only very technically in the underwater environment. So we've got in this legislation an attempt to add efficiency and effectiveness to the transport regulatory system arguing really that we've got a way of ensuring that the regime is able to achieve what it does and in a more timely perhaps less costly manner. Certainly that's the aim and of course it's a worthy aim. I'll just in my remaining time touch on a couple of aspects that I thought were interesting about the way that it goes about doing that. I wasn't a member of the Transport and Infrastructure Committee that considered the bill so I have due circumspection in saying that I didn't hear all the submissions or indeed advice regarding the particular provision that I'm about to speak to. But it's about the right of appeal that's not to apply to class exemptions. So what we've got in the bill is a situation where if an exemption is applied to a class we are saying in this legislation that there won't be a right of appeal to the District Court for anyone who's dissatisfied with that decision to exempt a whole class. The bill rightly notes that doing so would need to be understanding that there's a high cost—is the phrase that it used—to appealing to the District Court and then it notes that there are a couple of other avenues that someone could pursue if they were dissatisfied with a class exemption having been granted. One is judicial review. Well of course that's an application to the High Court and that of course in itself is very expensive. They do however note that the Regulations Review Committee would be available to scrutinise class instruments.Rachel Brooking: Excellent.CHRIS PENK: Exactly. I have a couple of colleagues from that worthy committee with us in the House. I note that we're going to have more work coming our way so I'm ambivalent about that but nevertheless it is at least an avenue that is available and will remain available of course for anyone who believes that the class exemption that's going to be allowed for under this albeit that they can't make an appeal to the District Court they do at least have that opportunity. The commencement date I note with interest actually was originally going to be 1 July 2020. It's been kicked down the road a little bit and that's obviously appropriate. So I'll just finish I think—Dr Duncan Webb: Go on. You can do it. CHRIS PENK: Well actually I've been encouraged by the other side to continue going. I'm seeing if the whips want me to continue to do so so I'll keep an eye on that. I will just note by way of punishment that the exemptions to powers made under the regulations and rules—the director of the relevant transport agency may but is not required to include expiry dates. That was a bit surprising to me. Speaking of expiry dates I've got 24 more seconds. So maximum fines can be increased—well that's probably reasonably obvious at face value. I thought the other interesting aspect was that the Chatham Islands Council can be a regional council under Part 3A of the Maritime Transport Act. So for lovers of that fine piece of real estate in New Zealand that's very interesting indeed.