Catchpole Brent: Motor Vehicle Sales Bill — In Committee Third Reading 
Catchpole Brent: Motor Vehicle Sales Bill — In Committee Third Reading 
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BRENT CATCHPOLE (NZ First) 
: 
 On behalf of New Zealand First I rise to speak to Part 3. Before I get into that I would like to thank the Hon Harry Duynhoven the Associate Minister of Transport for getting up last night to give us some explanations on this bill. It was sadly lacking from the Minister who had been in the chair at the time. We are very grateful to Harry Duynhoven for clearing up some of those issues that we had last night. This bill is very complex and it is one that New Zealand First was not on the select committee to look into. Therefore we were very grateful to the Hon Harry Duynhoven for clearing up some of those points. 
The difficulty we have in this part is that there are no means of compliance checks and therefore when there is a registered or deregistered member then there is no way that he or she intends to go back to be registered. There are no teeth or incentives in this bill for somebody to become registered and therefore why would he or she bother? People can sell out of the backyard or under the guise of somebody else’s registration or licence under what is termed a harbouring association. Once people are in that situation they can sell as many cars as they like. They will not report how many cars they have sold. To put in the bill that they have to be registered if they sell more than six cars is a waste of time. They will not disclose what they are doing out of the backyard or under the table. There is no incentive for them to become registered. It certainly does not protect consumers because they will just walk away from the licence they are working from and leave it. There is no comeback to the original licence holder. Why should anybody become registered under this situation? 
New Zealand First has a real concern that this bill lacks teeth. The purpose of the bill is quite good and reasonable but it lacks teeth it is disorganised it does not have the coordination and thankfully the Hon Harry Duynhoven got up here last night and explained some of the situation. One jumps from one end of the bill to other. It is a pity that the real Minister the Hon Paul Swain who is supposed to be handling this bill was not able to stand up to do that for us. He sat in the chair and said absolutely nothing. 
Peter Brown 
: He asked us what we thought it achieved. 
BRENT CATCHPOLE 
: That is right. He asked us whether we thought it achieved what he wanted it to do. I do not think he really knew what he wanted to do with this bill so he had to ask us. Why did he not ask the Hon Harry Duynhoven? He was there and he has the knowledge. Why did the Minister not ask him? He would have told him that this bill has some major problems. The Hon Harry Duynhoven cleared that up last night and made it quite clear to us that those problems exist. 
There is one issue that I would like to go back to: I would like the Hon Harry Duynhoven to explain to us when we have a situation where people can go to Japan and get the details of the odometer readings why that paperwork does not follow the vehicle back all the way into New Zealand. This bill does not insist that it do so. If it did then a lot of the problems with odometer readings and winding them back would be solved. But no that paperwork does not follow the vehicle and it does not give us the checks that we require. I ask Mr Duynhoven to explain this to the Committee.