Affiliate Te Arawa Iwi and Hapu Claims Settlement Bill

I will take a brief call, and it is about clause 21, “Authority to issue, amend, or cancel protocols”. Clause 21(1) states: “Each responsible Minister may—(a) issue a protocol to the trustees in the form set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1 of the deed of settlement;”. My issue is that if we want to find out a wee bit more about the form of a protocol, we have to try to find a copy of the deed of settlement. There is no explanation in the bill of the form of a protocol. I wonder whether Part 2 should have a form—it could even be a schedule to the bill—that sets outs the hows, the whys, and the why-nots of a protocol. My main concern about the protocols is that if somebody picks up the bill, looks at it, and says “OK, what is this protocol business?”, that person then has to try to get a copy of the deed of settlement. I wonder why we cannot have a form as a schedule to the bill.

That is all—a very quick speech.

Part 2 agreed to.

Part 3 Cultural redress properties and other properties