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Regulatory Standards Bill

Principles of responsible regulation and regulatory stewardship - Regulatory stewardship and plans for regularly reviewing legislation - Plans for regularly reviewing legislation

20: How good law-making principles apply when responsible agency is carrying out review

You could also call this:

"Rules for checking if old laws are still good"

When a government agency reviews a law, they need to follow some special rules. These rules are a bit different from the ones used when making new laws.

The agency doesn't have to ask people what they think about the law. This is different from when they make new laws.

The agency needs to look at what has happened since the law started. They need to think about who the law has helped and who it might have caused problems for.

They also need to check if the good things the law has done are worth more than what it cost to make and use the law.

Finally, they need to think about whether the law is still the best way to solve the problem it was made for. They need to see if there might be better ways to do it now.

These rules help make sure that laws are working well and are still useful.

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Part 2Principles of responsible regulation and regulatory stewardship
Regulatory stewardship and plans for regularly reviewing legislation: Plans for regularly reviewing legislation

20How good law-making principles apply when responsible agency is carrying out review

  1. For the purposes of a review under section 17,—

  2. the principle in section 8(i) (consultation) does not apply; and
    1. the principles in section 8(j) to (l) apply with any necessary modifications to allow the responsible agency to consider matters based on the events that have occurred since the legislation came into force, including—
      1. to evaluate who is likely to have benefited, and who is likely to have suffered a detriment, from the legislation (see section 8(j)(v)); and
        1. to consider whether the legislation has produced benefits that exceed the costs of the legislation to the public or persons (see section 8(k)); and
          1. to consider whether legislation is still the most effective, efficient, and proportionate response to the issue concerned that is available (see section 8(l)).