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Regulatory Standards Bill

Principles of responsible regulation and regulatory stewardship - Regulatory Standards Board - Functions

29: Functions of board

You could also call this:

"What the board does to help make good laws"

The new law wants to create a board with special jobs. This board will help make sure new and old laws follow good rules.

The board will look at existing laws to see if they follow good rules for making laws. They will tell the Minister and other important people what they find.

When the government wants to make a new law, they write a statement about how it follows the rules. The board will look at this statement for new laws that are being discussed in Parliament. They will tell the group of politicians looking at the new law what they think before the politicians finish their work.

The board can only look at existing laws in certain ways, which another part of the new law explains.

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Part 2Principles of responsible regulation and regulatory stewardship
Regulatory Standards Board: Functions

29Functions of board

  1. The functions of the board are to promote the purposes of this Act by—

    Inquiries into existing legislation

  2. carrying out inquiries into whether Acts or secondary legislation are inconsistent with the principles of responsible regulation; and
    1. reporting on those inquiries to the regulatory standards Minister and the other persons referred to in section 35; and

        1. Considering consistency accountability statements for Bills

      1. considering a consistency accountability statement for a Government Bill that—
        1. has been introduced into the House of Representatives; and
          1. is being considered by a Committee of the House of Representatives in accordance with the rules and practice of the House of Representatives; and
          2. reporting on its consideration under paragraph (c) to that Committee before the Committee finally reports to the House of Representatives on the Bill.

            1. Subsection (1)(a) is subject to section 33.