Woods Megan; Bayly Andrew; Kuriger BarbaraHon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Labour—Wigram): Thank you Madam Chair. I have a couple of questions for the Minister in the chair in terms of what will happen in terms of the administration around some of the dates that are laid out in terms of clause 18 amends the Land Transport (Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2011" and clause 19 revoking regulation 5(2A).One of the things that is happening here is around removing the ability to pay the collected money over as a rebate and I'll return to this when we come to the dates. But actually those two clauses within this part—because clause 18 provides that section 19 amends that principal piece of legislation the Land Transport (Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing) Regulations of 2011 and clause 19 revokes regulation 5(2A) which prohibits the register of motor vehicles from issuing a certificate of registration for a vehicle if there are charges payable for the vehicle under the Clean Vehicle Discount Scheme and those charges have not been paid. This is where we have what I would describe as a chicken and egg situation that we are coming into a situation—this ends on the 31st. Now there will be a number of people that have made a decision purchased but the car has not landed in New Zealand and therefore cannot be registered. They may be expecting receipt of their vehicle and its registration on say 29 December 30 December even 31 December but there is a delay for some reason or another and it might not arrive until say 4 or 5 January. But the cut-off there that is covered in that clause 19 will provide for a number of problems for those people. They will miss out on the rebate through no fault of their own.It's for their reason that there is an amendment in the name of my colleague Tangi Utikere proposing that we have a new clause 28 inserted into Part 7 of Schedule 1 of the Land Transport Act 1998—a new clause 28: after clause 27 insert "This Act continues to apply as if it had not been amended by sections 4 and 7 of the amendment Act for the purposes of a rebate on vehicles for which there was a purchase arrangement in place by the end of 31 December 2023." Because the way that this bill is written it's all about registration. We all know that registration for a vehicle cannot be issued till it has made landfall in New Zealand and it has gone through that process. But what my colleague is suggesting so that we don't get people caught in this situation that may over the Christmas New Year period easily happen is that what we could have is the requirement for there to be that purchase agreement in place by 31 December.Now we do not of course agree with the repeal of any of this but what we are concerned about is that people through no fault of their own who are going to get caught by these provisions—and it's why in Part 2 of this bill my colleague is proposing that amendment. So I'd like to know whether the Government is willing to countenance that amendment to protect people so they don't get caught in some tricky situations. They may find that the vehicle that they were about to purchase suddenly goes up by up to $7000 if they miss out for some reason or another on the ability to claim that rebate; obviously less if someone's buying a new to New Zealand second-hand vehicle. There could be a delay in that landing over this period which is reasonably notorious for there being delays as businesses rightly shut down so people can have their holidays. I'd like to hear from the Minister and from the Government whether there is an amendment in this part of the bill that they will support.I do have a further question around the label and I appreciate that we will be getting blown-up copies of those labels so we can continue to debate this part of the bill. But my question is given that the labels are going to continue to display the emissions from a particular vehicle and given under Part 1 of the bill there were some very serious questions that the Minister never even addressed around emissions and reporting and advice I'd like to know in terms of each of those labels displaying emissions information what information more generally has the Minister received on emissions?Hon ANDREW BAYLY (Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs): Just to briefly deal with the member's question we just want to be very clear with people that if you want to go and buy an electric vehicle and get a rebate if you want to do that you need to do it by 31 December. You need to buy it and register it and make your application before 31 December—very clear rules. So just saying to people: don't go and buy one that's in the shipment; go and buy one that you can get straight away. It's a very clear clean end to this car discount scheme because we need to bring it to a close.CHAIRPERSON (Barbara Kuriger): Members the time has come for me to leave the Chair. The committee will resume at 2 p.m. today.Sitting suspended from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m."