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Regulatory Standards Bill

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

36: Ministry must publish inquiry reports

You could also call this:

"Ministry shares reports about rules for everyone to read online"

This part of the bill says that when the board finishes an inquiry, they will give a report to the regulatory standards Minister. The Ministry must then put this report on a website for everyone to see. They need to do this as soon as they can.

But there's a catch. The Ministry can remove some information from the report before they put it online. They can do this if they think there's a good reason to keep that information secret. They use the Official Information Act 1982 to decide what information to remove.

Remember, this is not the law yet. It's just a suggestion for a new law that people are thinking about.

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

36Ministry must publish inquiry reports

  1. If the board gives a report on an inquiry to the regulatory standards Minister, the regulatory standards Ministry must, as soon as is reasonably practicable, publish the report on an internet site.

  2. However, the regulatory standards Ministry may redact any information from a report that is published if the Ministry considers there would be a good reason for withholding the information under the Official Information Act 1982 if a request for that information were made under that Act.