Bayly Andrew; Penk Chris; Wood MichaelANDREW BAYLY (National—Port Waikato): Thank you Mr Chair. I understand from the Minister that these two operative sections—62 and 66—in clauses 4 and 5 come into force and obviously we remove the high-liability high-risk businesses. But from what I understand he said before that there are no further changes to the regulations. So presumably then if that is the case it's quite easy to answer my question which is: if a health and safety committee gets set up at the behest of one person even if it's in a 19-person firm what is the procedure for it to be disbanded if either that person leaves or other members—is there a formal process to enable it to be formally disbanded? And what is the role of the person conducting a business or undertaking in that process and can they of their own volition or own initiation actually disband the committee if there is little interest shown by workers?CHRIS PENK (National—Kaipara ki Mahurangi): Thank you very much Mr Chair. If I can just develop a theme begun by my colleague and friend Tama Potaka in relation to consultation—and I accept the Minister's answer of course that the legislation we have in front of us is a result of Labour having made those undertakings in its manifesto commitment ahead of the last election. Given that we are so close to the next election then I wonder if the Minister would contemplate that the commencement date should be not the day after which it receives the Royal assent"—in these dying days of the current parliamentary term and indeed the dying days of this current Government—but actually to make the Act come into force sometime after 14 October to allow the democratic—Hon Scott Simpson: Mandate.CHRIS PENK: —mandate to which he refers in a positive way for him and his side in terms of having brought it in given that it might be that other parties who may or may not form Government following 14 October might have a different view and maybe we'll be back to someone whose name is very much like the Hon Michael Wood but with the addition of a "-house" in this House! So I look forward to the thoughts of the Minister in terms of how we might justify this—and actually on a very serious note the importance of certainty in this space. So I'd be grateful for the comments of the Minister on the commencement date in that light.Hon MICHAEL WOOD (Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety): Thank you to the member—a very good use of a minute 25—and the member's question there. The member Chris Penk is in the House as I look around maybe with one exception probably more constitutionally minded than virtually anyone else and constitutionally trained than anyone else in the Chamber at the current moment. So I am sure he will be aware that the Government continues to govern up until the time of the election and that most Governments continue to do that and pass legislation in that period. The democratic process will have its way after that.In respect of Mr Bayly's question around whether there are measures around the disbanding of health and safety committees no there are not. Again I note that that is not something—a situation—created by this bill. I'm referring here to the overall architecture of the Health and Safety at Work Act which of course was put into effect by the previous Government. Ultimately if there are no workers who want to be on a health and safety committee there will not be a health and safety committee."