Macindoe Tim: Subordinate Legislation (Confirmation and Validation) Bill — First Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Macindoe Tim: Subordinate Legislation (Confirmation and Validation) Bill — First Reading 
[Sitting date: 11 September 2012. Volume:683;Page:5078. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
TIM MACINDOE (National—Hamilton West) 
: 
 I would like to congratulate Mr O’Rourke on managing to inject a hint of controversy into Parliament’s annual consideration of the Subordinate Legislation (Confirmation and Validation) Bill because that is no mean feat. I have been here for only 4 years but I seriously doubt whether that has ever been done before. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: It certainly has. 
TIM MACINDOE 
: Mr Mallard assures me that it has. Well as I look up at the packed public gallery at the moment I realise that this is not a measure that is likely to be detaining viewers at home in front of Parliament TV unable to tear themselves away from their sets. 
Nevertheless this debate is an opportunity to acknowledge and bring to public attention the work of our Regulations Review Committee. Its tasks are often conducted below the radar and are often seriously dry subject matter. Nevertheless it does perform a very important function. Although I am no longer a member of the committee I was a permanent member of the Regulations Review Committee for the whole of the 49th Parliament and as Mr Chauvel acknowledged a few moments ago I was the deputy chair for about 2 years. I would like to think that Mr Chauvel and I worked very well together in that time and I do acknowledge his sterling efforts. 
In fact Mr Chauvel has retained the role in the 50th Parliament. I am really not sure what crime he committed in order to be saddled with the task for another 3 years but apparently he enjoys the work. So if chairing the Regulations Review Committee makes Mr Chauvel happy I want to assure anyone who may still be listening that that makes the rest of his colleagues on all sides of the House delirious with excitement. We are absolutely ecstatic about his willingness. He has taken one for the team and we all commend him for that. When he spoke on this bill earlier in the debate his enthusiasm for the work was truly enchanting—if in fact heroic. 
The Hon Chester Borrows outlined the need for the Subordinate Legislation (Confirmation and Validation) Bill to be considered and enacted by the House annually to ensure that various orders and regulations that must be validated or confirmed by Parliament do not lapse. So it is probably worthwhile to write into the record of this first reading debate that the bill validates or confirms orders and regulations under a range of legislation. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: Come on! We were promised 2 minutes. 
TIM MACINDOE 
: Mr Mallard would like me to wind up. Would you like me to wind up fairly soon? I am being encouraged not to continue. I was simply thinking it would be worthwhile to bring into the public arena the fact that under this bill we are validating or confirming— 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: Bring back Martin Gallagher. 
TIM MACINDOE 
: Well he is a fine man. I certainly enjoy his friendship and his support in his new role as a councillor in Hamilton. Yes I would say to bring him back to many fields of endeavour but probably not to this House any time soon. 
I will try for the third time to point out to those who may be listening and who are wondering what exactly Mr Mallard was trying to say that the bill validates or confirms orders and regulations under a range of legislation including—and this is the exciting bit—the Animal Products Act 1999. 
Louise Upston 
: The high point. 
TIM MACINDOE 
: Yes it is the high point of the speech as Ms Upston has just acknowledged. Also the Commodity Levies Act 1990— 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: The deal’s off. 
TIM MACINDOE 
: There is more. Wait there is more: the Customs and Excise Act 1996 the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Act which of course got Mr O’Rourke so excited a few minutes ago—that is the 2001 measure—the Social Security Act 1964 the Road User Charges Act 2012 and the War Pensions Act 1954. 
I will conclude by saying there are very good reasons for regulations to have expiry dates and there are equally good reasons for many of them to be renewed each year. Other members have queried today whether this is the best way to do that. I will look forward to hearing whether they can come up with a better way of achieving that objective but in the meantime I have great pleasure in supporting this bill’s first reading. 
Bill read a first time.  
Bill referred to the Regulations Review Committee.