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Regulatory Standards Bill

Principles of responsible regulation and regulatory stewardship - How principles apply when developing legislation - Bills

9: Review of consistency of Bill with principles

You could also call this:

"Checking if new laws follow good rules"

This part of the bill is about making sure new laws follow good rules. When the government wants to make a new law, they need to do two things:

First, they need to write a report. This report will say if the new law follows some important rules for making good laws. These rules are called 'principles of responsible regulation'.

Second, if the report shows that the new law doesn't follow these rules, the minister in charge needs to explain why. They have to write a short statement giving reasons for not following the rules.

Both of these things need to be included with the new law when it's introduced to Parliament. They can either be in the explanation of the law or there can be a link to them.

This helps everyone understand if the new law is following good rules, and if not, why not.

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Part 2Principles of responsible regulation and regulatory stewardship
How principles apply when developing legislation: Bills

9Review of consistency of Bill with principles

  1. If a Government Bill is introduced into the House of Representatives, the responsible Minister must ensure that the Bill’s explanatory note includes (or contains a link to)—

  2. a consistency accountability statement; and
    1. a statement from the responsible Minister that briefly explains the Government’s reasons for any inconsistency with the principles of responsible regulation that is identified in the consistency accountability statement.