Brown SimeonSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): Thank you Madam Chair. Thank you for the opportunity to take a call on the Land Transport (Clean Vehicles) Amendment Bill. It's interesting just the comment there by the Minister of Transport where he says Well we kind of expect this to sort of wash up in the end but we're not quite sure and if it doesn't we'll just take that money and put it into the National Land Transport Fund."—taking money away from people who are purchasing vehicles potentially for their farm or for their trade and hoovering it up and putting it into the National Land Transport Fund. And I'd like the Minister to actually answer some questions in regards to that in terms of what modelling and expectation—he says it may vary. It may vary. Well what modelling has been done by officials to determine whether he does expect it to be cost-neutral and also what the cost of actually administering this scheme is going to be out of the percentage of the money raised to actually administer practically all of the different functions in the scheme?Now I want to touch on a part in clause 5 which under the new section 167A—this section effectively gives the Minister of Transport carte blanche authority to effectively manage the new car industry in New Zealand. It says here: "(1) Without limiting the generality of section 167(1)(j) regulations for the purpose of promoting the transition of New Zealand's light vehicle fleet to zero- and low-emission vehicles and reducing vehicle carbon dioxide emissions may be made under that provision providing for fees and charges to be paid in relation to the carbon dioxide emissions of imported new and used light vehicles."Now my question to the Minister is: is there any limit on the maximum amount of fees or charges that could be placed upon a vehicle coming into this country? Is there actually a limit or is that something which the Minister of the day is able to effectively decide as to how he or she wishes to charge those vehicles coming into the country? Because I think people listening at home or potentially on the forecourt—because the Speaker's decided in his infinite wisdom to blast the House out to the forecourt—Hon Member: It'll be edifying.SIMEON BROWN: —which must be edifying—at least my speech must be edifying! But the question they'll be asking is: what could the maximum charge be if I'm buying a ute or if I'm buying a van or if I'm buying that family wagon that I need for my family? Is it something that the Minister could effectively set overnight and would be able to change at a whim? How frequently can the Minister decide that "Actually I've decided that the $5000 tax on that ute well too many people are buying that particular ute. It's far too cheap. We're going to increase the fee to $7000 and we're going to start that by next month."? At what kind of frequency is the Minister able to amend the fees or charges at in order to try to manipulate the market as he or she sees fit for the purpose of this section? So the question is is there a maximum? If so what is that maximum? And the next question then is: what is the frequency by which those fees or charges can be set at? Can they be set on a regular basis or is it required to be set on a yearly basis or what is the frequency regarding that?And a final question before I look forward to the Minister's answering is regarding the regulations because this bill—and we'll talk about commencement shortly obviously because this part is not talking about the commencement. But the regulations that this section authorises need to be obviously implemented within six weeks because the bill is meant to come into force on 1 April. And so my question is: have the regulations been drafted that will be implemented under this particular section? Have officials already been beavering away drafting the regulations for this particular section and what stage are they at and what consultation have they been undertaking with the industry? Because I can tell you people in the motor trade industry will be looking at a six-week time frame and wondering: "How on earth are we going to implement this piece of legislation in six weeks?" I look forward to the Minister's answers."