Beaumont Carol: Civil Aviation (Cape Town Convention and Other Matters) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Beaumont Carol: Civil Aviation (Cape Town Convention and Other Matters) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 22 June 2010. Volume:664;Page:12036. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
CAROL BEAUMONT (Labour) 
: 
 It is with great pleasure that I rise to speak on the third reading of the Civil Aviation (Cape Town Convention and Other Matters) Amendment Bill 2010. I thank the previous speaker Gareth Hughes for his challenge; I will certainly think seriously about it. It has been a very interesting debate. Perhaps if I am honest I would say that it has been more interesting than I expected it to be. 
Grant Robertson 
: But you had low expectations. 
CAROL BEAUMONT 
: Ha ha! 
I am a member of the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee which received a presentation on the matters around the Cape Town Convention. Again I join with colleagues in thanking officials for the work they did on that convention. It is important that New Zealand signs up to relevant international conventions. The convention and the associated Aircraft Protocol deals with a serious matter and that of course is about items that are by their nature very mobile—that is aircraft—and about the fact that those who are financing those aircraft need to know the status of those aircraft. It provides for a simply accessed registry based in Ireland and that is positive. 
The full wording of the convention and the associated protocol are part of this bill and will be included in schedules to the Civil Aviation Act. It standardises transactions involving movable property and sets down international standards for registration of ownership and for securing the interests of all parties. As was said earlier that is important particularly in relation to the fact that otherwise rules are based on domestic legislation in different countries and that is not really very helpful with something like a plane which moves all around the world. 
The other matter the bill contains is of course the ordinary rule which tries to clarify—let us be straightforward about this—how civil aviation rule-making is done. It provides for ordinary rules to be determined by the authority the director or other persons and it imposes requirements and conditions on those rules. As I outlined in some detail consultation requirements must be observed before ordinary rules are amended. Those include the requirement on the Minister to publish a notice of his or her intention to make the rule and to consult. 
I reinforce the point that has been made by a number of speakers including myself that consultation requirements are important. We need to have confidence that consultation is not just window dressing or something done in an ad hoc manner but is taken very very seriously. I hope that the Minister of Transport has taken that on board in this discussion. Certainly in relation to many other matters consultation has been a sham. I use the Auckland super-city as an example of very poor consultation and of disenfranchising the people of Auckland of whom I am one. 
Also I touched on the work of the Civil Aviation Authority and I acknowledge that agency. It is doing a very important job. It is a very serious area with a lot of security issues and safety issues for the travelling public and for the people who work in that industry. They have a wide range of responsibilities which I outlined. 
A number of us have commented on the fact that signing up to international conventions is important in terms of playing our role globally. New Zealand has always taken those responsibilities seriously. The Transport and Industrial Relations Committee of course covers both transport matters and what are called industrial relations matters but are broadly employment issues. I have raised as my colleague Darien Fenton did our concern in relation to employment matters that perhaps New Zealand through various actions of this Government is at risk of getting into difficulty with international best practice in the employment relations area. 
Interestingly enough the Civil Aviation Authority in its annual report covers matters relating to employment issues. I thought it was worth noting that and congratulating the authority on the fact that it has a good-employer programme. The programme covers seven main areas: leadership accountability and culture; recruitment selection and induction; employee development promotion and exit; flexibility in work design; remuneration recognition and conditions; harassment and bullying prevention; and safe and healthy environment matters. So both the transport and employment relations matters are together in one annual report and I acknowledge and thank the Civil Aviation Authority for its efforts in terms of being a good employer. 
It is a pleasure to join with my colleagues and stand to speak on this bill. We are of course continuing to support it. 
Bill read a third time.