Dean Jacqui: Trade Marks Amendment Bill Copyright Amendment Bill (No 2) — Third Readings 
Dean Jacqui: Trade Marks Amendment Bill Copyright Amendment Bill (No 2) — Third Readings 
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JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki) 
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 It gives me great pleasure to rise to speak in the third readings of the Trademarks Amendment Bill and the Copyright Amendment Bill (No 2). I will pick up on a couple of points that have been raised by previous speakers in this debate. They relate to the work that the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee did on this legislation when it was first sent to our committee. Points have been made by two Labour members about some aspects of the legislation being brought into being through Order in Council. They were referring specifically to clause 2(2) of the original bill which provides for 10 clauses—very important clauses in the legislation—to be brought about by Order in Council. The Hon Maryan Street picked up on the point that the committee’s commentary on the bill urged the Ministry of Economic Development to implement all aspects of the legislation expeditiously. The member used that as a bit of an excuse or an opportunity to try to raise a rather weak attack on the Government in terms of timeliness. 
I suggest that that member has rather missed the point. I recall very well the discussion on those 10 clauses in the original bill at the select committee being about such matters as the appointment and powers of enforcement officers and customs officers. I recall very clearly in the select committee—the member may not and her colleague may not but I recall very clearly—that we had a long and careful discussion about the powers of customs officers. It did seem to members of the committee present—and I know that my colleagues in the House recall it very well—that that was the focus of our discussion. I suggest to the members opposite that the powers of enforcement officers and customs officers are of critical importance. I suggest to that member that we dealt with that issue very thoroughly. 
Further to that we were concerned that the explanatory note of the bill as it was sent to our committee did not adequately explain just why those 10 clauses were to be enacted through Order in Council and would not be in the body of the legislation. I suggest to members opposite that that was the reason why we had concern for that part of the legislation not any aspect of when the legislation might be read in Parliament. 
I note also that this is a busy Government. This is a busy Government that has an awful lot of work on its plate picking up after 9 years of neglect by the previous Labour Government. This Government has undertaken a long body of work. 
I also pick up on the Hon Pete Hodgson who spent a lot of grumpy time I have to say in his third reading speech asking a number of questions and table-thumping about why he was not going to get the answers. I suggest to that member that he had a lot of opportunity during both the select committee consideration of this legislation and also the Committee of the whole House stage of this bill to ask those questions. If it has only just now occurred to that member to ask those questions I suggest that he might have taken a little bit more care about the legislation on its way through our very good select committee process. 
Having made those couple of points I am also very pleased to see this Government putting through this legislation in time for the Rugby World Cup. The eyes of the world are upon us now. It is most important that we have the legislation in place now to cope with the challenges that the Rugby World Cup is bringing upon us. The Trade Marks Amendment Bill and the Copyright Amendment Bill (No 2) will make life easier for the New Zealand Customs Service and New Zealand business while cracking down on people who import and sell counterfeit goods. As the excellent Hon Maurice Williamson noted it is all very well to bring into the country a pair of cheap sneakers with some brand name on that will ultimately fall apart within a few days but that does not do the New Zealand economy any good and it certainly does not do the good name of the company any good. This legislation overcomes that. 
It also gives effect to a number of treaties for the New Zealand Government: the Madrid protocol the Nice agreement and the Singapore treaty. I will not use the time of this House to rehearse the impact of those treaties; they have been well canvassed in the House. With those few words I commend the bills to the House.