Guy Nathan: Civil Aviation (Cape Town Convention and Other Matters) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Guy Nathan: Civil Aviation (Cape Town Convention and Other Matters) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 22 June 2010. Volume:664;Page:12009. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon NATHAN GUY (Associate Minister of Transport) 
: 
 As I was saying before the lunch break the bill also amends several other Acts to ensure that the special insolvency regime provided for in the Aircraft Protocol prevails over any inconsistent domestic processes. 
The bill also makes changes to the Civil Aviation Act to streamline the civil aviation rule-making process. Transport legislation including the Act contains provisions authorising the Minister of Transport to make ordinary transport rules. These include requirements relating to public notification of and consultation on intended rules and a mandatory 28-day rule between the gazetting of a rule and when it comes into force. These together with the subsequent addition of a Cabinet process have resulted in a complex and lengthier rule-making process. 
In 2008 the previous Government decided that the rules system should remain but should be more flexible. This Government agrees with that approach and has moved more aggressively to streamline the rule-making process and reduce overall costs. This bill therefore amends the Civil Aviation Act of 1990 to enable civil aviation rules to be made by Order in Council to repeal mandatory notification requirements and replace them with a requirement for notification as considered appropriate by the Minister of Transport and to repeal the mandatory 28-day rule. It will also align the Act with the Land Transport Act of 1998 in relation to incorporation by reference of standards into rules and the power of the director to determine— 
Hon Steve Chadwick 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. With respect to the Minister—oh the microphones have come on. We could not hear the Minister because of the noise in the House. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Rick Barker) 
: The member is quite right. There was noise on both sides of the House and I was waving and gesticulating to people for them to calm down rather than interrupt the Minister’s speech—and now we have interrupted it. Could I just make the point that there is a lot of extraneous noise in the Chamber and could people give the appropriate courtesy to Nathan Guy. 
Hon NATHAN GUY 
: I thank the member for that. As I was saying it will also align the Act with the Land Transport Act of 1998 in relation to incorporation by reference of standards into rules and the power of the director to determine technical matters under these rules. 
The Government would like the potential financial savings to our aviation industry to become quickly available this year. A 3-month time lag before accession to the convention and protocols is effective means that for accession to be in force by 1 October this year the bill would need to progress through all stages by 24 June. Subject to Royal assent occurring by 29 June the instruments of accession could then be lodged by 30 June and accession be in force for New Zealand 3 months later. I commend this bill to the House.