Curran Clare: Regulatory Reform Bill — In Committee Speaker Recalled In Committee 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Curran Clare: Regulatory Reform Bill — In Committee Speaker Recalled In Committee 
[Sitting date: 22 August 2012. Volume:683;Page:4692. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
CLARE CURRAN (Labour—Dunedin South) 
: 
 I would like to take a call on Part 3 of the Regulatory Reform Bill which under some duress in the Committee we are attempting to debate. The point that is to be made around this bill is around the fact that it achieves some measures that are going to ensure that we tidy up and provides some tinkering around a number of bills some of which are just being amended and 31 of which are repealed bills and bills that need to go. As we have heard from the Hon Lianne Dalziel and other speakers this bill came out of a process that has been ongoing for a number of years. It was the outcome of the Quality Regulation Review that was led by Lianne Dalziel during the former Labour Government when the first Regulatory Improvement Bill was introduced which was then an omnibus bill as well as we are seeing here today a number of years later. 
This bill was put in by the incoming National Government under the name of Rodney Hide and has now been transferred to the Hon John Banks. We have been calling all night for him to take a call on this bill because there have been a number of important issues and points raised around the impact of this the savings that it will make and I suppose the bigger regulatory reforms that it leaves out and that are not being covered in this bill which a number of colleagues have made reference to. We know that annual regulatory improvement bills are a very sensible way to ensure quality regulation but we have expressed a lot of concern about the process of this bill through the House and how it has been held up and whether or not it actually achieves anything particularly major. 
There are some issues that it does deal with such as with those 13 amendments to those particular Acts that it will cover and I was making reference to the importance of the electronic shareholder participation. Another change that it includes is amending the Films Videos and Publications Classification Act which will reduce compliance costs as well. We received a number of submissions on this during the progress of this bill through the House. This was quite an important issue which was referred to by submitters who had been requesting changes essentially to “the Films Videos and Publications Act 1994 since early 2009.” and stated that “The Film and Video Labelling Body … is currently permitted to cross rate film titles from Australia and the United Kingdom”. 
Andrew Williams 
: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. The member with all due respect appears to have moved on to Part 5 of the bill. We are debating Part 3 at the moment so just keep this brief and to the point. 
The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson) 
: Thank you.  
CLARE CURRAN 
: With reference to Part 3 of the Regulatory Reform Bill the Companies Act 1993 is one of the 13 Acts that are being amended. Actually there are a number of Acts that are being amended and the Companies Act is just one of them. The Companies Act is from 1993. 
Darien Fenton 
: What are the other Acts though? 
CLARE CURRAN 
: Well we have covered off the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997 which actually Lianne Dalziel spoke quite knowledgably about I have to say. I think there has been some reference to the Animal Products Act 1999. 
I have to acknowledge to the member who leapt to his feet previously Andrew Williams that I did actually get ahead of myself a bit by referring to the Films Videos and Publications Classification Act 1993. There are a number of issues associated with all of these particular Acts that are being amended and then of course there are the 31 pieces of legislation that are being repealed because they actually do not exist any more. That does I suppose in the context of tonight when we are standing—