Kevin Milne: Pointless regulations surrounding hairdressing

The Government is set to trim hairdressing red tape. 

Cabinet has accepted all the Ministry for Regulation recommendations, returning decisions on offering drinks during cuts, and allowing dogs in a salon to the business owner. 

Changes come into force in July. 

Kevin Milne may not be a huge fan of ACT, but he’ll say David Seymour is good at identifying silliness in rules and regulations. 

He reminisced on the “pointless bureaucracy” that surrounds the hair styling industry. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack tam podcast
from News Talks AB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Kicking us off this morning, we have got Kevin mil
Good morning, Kevin.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
It's so funny Frantisica. I think the audience probably knows
that we're not both huge supportative ACT, but here we
are both congratulating ACT on some of the things that
they're doing well.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
And I started off but heavy, So you're going to
lighten us up a little bit. You've got some kind
words for David Seymour.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah. The one thing I think David Seamo was good
at is identifying silliness and rules and regulations. I remember
back in the nineteen eighties or it might have been
the nineties, doing a Fairgo story about a small hair
salon in the Wier Wrapper. The owner, the hairstylist herself,
had received a warning. She hadn't realized that it was

(00:59):
a breach of the health regulations to offer a glass
of wine no charge on a hot wire rapper afternoon,
But yes it was. I couldn't believe it myself. Actually
I took a film crew up there. I think it
was a Marterton when we broke the law again. I
suppose filming a woman sipping a savignon blanc while waiting
for ad I remember we got an amusing story out

(01:22):
of it, but because the change was required in the law,
I don't think much progress was made. But finally this week,
some forty years later, the stupidity of the laws, the
pointless bureaucracy, as Seymour would put it, around headdresses and barbers,
is to be axed. A full revoke of the health

(01:43):
regulations relating to hairdressers is the aim, though I see
changes regarding the supply of alcohol has to go through
more legislation, but surely no one's going to be prowling
around salons sniffing out wine in the meantime. Good on
David Seymour for moving on this. I think he's got
a knack a liking for really exposing unnecessary bureaucracy, a

(02:08):
bit like the late Bob Jones. One might even say
that Seymour should be encouraged and his endeavors to eliminate bureaucracy.
It might distract them from his other endeavors to share
that haven't been so positive.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
We're a bit of a funny looks country, aren't we, Kevin.
We're a bit of a forty years we've been having
this discussion.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah, yes, yes, that's right. I think a lot of
the a lot of the hairdressers. I don't think even
realized it was a problem.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
No, because I was thinking back and I'm gone, I'm
pretty sure in the early or two thousands, if I was,
you know, when I was working full time and I
had to get my haircut in the evenings, I'm pretty
sure I was offered a glass of wine then, and
then that kind of just disappeared right up and disappeared.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yes, Yes, a funny thing actually happened. My son who's
in London, had met a guy in his bar that
he runs over there who told him my mother was
on fair Go once with your dad and it turns
out that she was the f from the wrapper ago. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
It's it is a small world we live in, isn't
it very much. I suppose there's some issues around the
fact that, you know, we put a lot of pressure
on you know, institutions to have rules about making sure
people drink properly and drink well, and you have like
a license and you have to go through all those
sort of you know, hoops and things. So I suppose

(03:31):
it's sort of got to be You've got to you know,
got to make sure there's a certain amount of responsibility
that you can't just be saying to anyone, you know,
oh yeah, of course you can be serving drinks, and
you can be serving drinks. I suppose you have to
do a little bit of you know, you have to
notify still you can still do it. Yeah, oh yeah, true, yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
I mean, as long as they're not running all side
business as a bar, basically, I think that's probably You're
the only thing you need to watch out for. Treading
lesson that are absolutely fine and frankly to be encouraged.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Thank you very much, Kevin. Nice to hear from you
this morning. Can you tell your thoughts on that too?
Would you be quite happy to be able to have
a little glass of why if you getting your haircut
at the end of the day.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
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