Social Housing Reform (Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters Amendment) Bill - Amendment paper No 398
Social Housing Reform (Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters Amendment) Bill - Amendment paper No 398
No 398
House of Representatives
Supplementary Order Paper
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Social Housing Reform (Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters Amendment) Bill
Proposed amendments
Phil Twyford, in Committee, to move the following amendments:
Clause 12
In clause 12, delete new section 57AA (lines 28 to 37 on page 14).
In clause 12, delete new section 57AD (line 30 on page 15 to line 6 on page 16).
Clause 13
In clause 13, delete new section 58AA(2)(c) (lines 10 to 21 on page 18).
Clause 14
In clause 14, delete new section 61(2)(c) and (d) (lines 28 to 32 on page 22).
Clause 19
In clause 19, delete new section 78(1)(b) and (c) (lines 20 to 25 on page 49).
In clause 19, delete new section 83(2)(b) (lines 6 to 8 on page 54).
In clause 19, delete new sections 103(1A), (1B), and (1D) (lines 1 to 12 and 19 to 20 on page 73).
In clause 19, delete new section 115A (lines 28 to 37 on page 82).
In clause 19, delete new section 118 as proposed in Supplementary Order Paper 390 (pages 81 to 82).
In clause 19, delete new section 121 (lines 11 to 29 on page 86).
In clause 19, new section 122, replace “, 120, or 121”
with “or 120”
(line 32 on page 86).
In clause 19, new section 123(1)(c), delete “or 118”
(line 33 on page 87).
In clause 19, new section 124(1), delete the words “or 118”
(line 4 on page 89), and replace the words “, 120, or 121”
with “or 120”
(line 5 on page 89).
In clause 19, new section 125(1)(d), delete “or 118”
(line 27 on page 89).
In clause 19, new section 125(1)(e), replace the words “, 120, or 121”
with “or 120”
(lines 28 and 29 on page 89).
In clause 19, delete new section 127(2)(b) (lines 22 to 24 on page 93).
Explanatory note
This Supplementary Order Paper amends the Social Housing Reform (Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters Amendment) Bill to remove all provisions relating to reviewable tenancies for all Housing New Zealand tenants.
Reviewable tenancies will have the effect of extending insecurity of tenure to all State-house tenants, including the elderly. This will create needless stress, anxiety, and suffering for older New Zealanders, who least deserve such treatment, and are least able to cope with it.
Originally, Government policy was to impose reviewable tenancies only on new tenants, but not on pre-existing tenants. Government Ministers have stated that this policy would not apply to the old or disabled. This Bill explicitly extends reviewable tenancies to all tenants of State and community housing.
As presented to the Social Services Committee, reviewable tenancies have the potential to pose a major public health risk and this Supplementary Order Paper would remove the relevant provisions.