Mr. Vinny Colgan:

The envisaged powers of the regulator would remain in terms of regulating those organisations. What is more, the Act as previously written required the AHBs to undertake the act of applying for registration and making a constitutional change. The default has been changed in that they are now registered so all of the powers of the AHBRA apply. The risk in how the Act is currently written is that AHBs simply cannot apply and fall out of regulation. In this way, the AHBRA's powers apply now on the enactment of this legislation. If an AHB wants to cancel thereafter, AHBRA can use its powers throughout that act of cancellation.