Andersen GinnyGINNY ANDERSEN (Labour): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. It's a great opportunity to speak in the third and the final reading of the Legislation Bill. As a committee member on the committee which considered this it's been good to see this bill through the entire process through the House. It's good also to see that we have support on a bill that is one of those bills that just makes our legislative processes tidier and also is more about transparency and enabling New Zealanders to easily access pieces of information or pieces of legislation that are available.So the main piece of work—and it's a significant piece of work that officials have been working on—is to really bring together a large body of secondary legislation. And can I just say how important that it is to have access to that.So secondary legislation" is actually a new term in terms of legislation that's not made within this House. So it's made under powers delegated by Parliament and that's held in many different places and it could be in terms of local council rules and regulations. It's a significant task by those officials to try and bring together the significant body of regulation in one place and have that available online as we do now with primary legislation. And that's important if you are a local member of the public who's impacted on by a local regulation or some order or applying for a permit. It's important that people understand what is being delegated by Parliament and how it applies to them.So there are rules notices orders regulations and so on. So I take my hat off to those officials that have undertaken the mammoth task of going through all of those different areas to bring together that piece of work.So really what gave rise to this bill—and I'll just briefly touched on this—is interesting in the fact that it responds to the recommendations of the Regulations Review Committee. That's already been mentioned earlier. Back in 2014 there was an inquiry into the oversight of disallowable instruments—no not just disallowable instruments but disallowable instruments that are not legislative instruments. And in that report the committee highlighted the difficulties in facing identifying a disallowable instrument. These difficulties arise partly because of the category of disallowable instruments. It includes not only instruments made under an empowering provision but also that they are disallowing and that's specified in section 39 of the Legislation Act—so clarifying where that sits.The scope for legitimate divergences on whether an instrument does or does not have a significant legislative effect makes the boundaries of the category contestable and introduces a level of uncertainty in terms of which instruments are subject to the disallowance procedure. So having clarification in this area knowing where the line is drawn in between primary legislation and secondary legislation is an important piece of work for New Zealand to carry out. So it makes it clearer in terms of where those areas are and also for making that more transparent for members of the public.So the bill brings together the law relating to legislation to ensure New Zealand's law is easy to find it's easy to use and it's easy to understand. But above all those things it's also to ensure that it is of high quality. In places it will rewrite and replace the Legislation Act 2012 and update and re-enact the Interpretation Act 1999 combining the two into one Act. And so it tidies up and brings together and consolidates all of that area.For the first time in New Zealand law it will identify clearly what secondary legislation is and therefore what the House has oversight over through the disallowances process that I've already outlined.It will also provide for improved access to that legislation as I've already indicated through having those available online where currently they are not. And it will absorb the Interpretation Act 1999 with a small number of technical improvements.And finally it will enact legislative disclosure requirements to make key information about development and the content of new legislation available to support legislative scrutiny.This is an excellent bill that really cleans up legislation for New Zealand and I commend it to the House."