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Regulatory Standards Bill

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

33: When board may inquire into legislation

You could also call this:

"When can the special group check laws?"

This new law would let a special group called a board look at some laws, but not all of them. The board can only check laws that are part of a regular review plan. This plan is explained in section 17.

The board won't be able to look at every law. For example, they can't check laws that are left out of the review plan. They can only look at some smaller laws if a special statement has been written about them, or if they're on a special list in section 19.

The board isn't allowed to look into specific actions or results that affect just one person or a small group of people. Their job is to look at the bigger picture of how laws work.

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

33When board may inquire into legislation

  1. The board may inquire into an Act or secondary legislation only if section 17 applies to the Act or secondary legislation.

    Guidance note

    Sections 18 and 19 provide for when legislation is subject to plans for regular review by the responsible agency under section 17. The board may inquire into the legislation only if it is subject to those review requirements. For example, the board—

    • may not inquire into an excluded Act or secondary legislation made under an excluded Act; and

    • may inquire into secondary legislation only if a consistency accountability statement has been prepared for the legislation (or an amendment) or it is specified in a notice issued under section 19.

  2. The board must not inquire into the performance or non-performance of a particular act, or the bringing about of a particular result, in respect of a particular person or persons.