Part 2Principles of responsible regulation and regulatory stewardship
Regulatory stewardship and plans for regularly reviewing legislation: Regulatory stewardship
15Responsibility to engage in regulatory stewardship
A chief executive of a responsible agency for legislation is responsible for—
- proactively engaging in stewardship of the regulatory system to which the legislation relates when carrying out their responsibilities and functions; and
- ensuring that the responsible agency also does so.
This section applies in relation to—
- a chief executive only if they are a public service chief executive (within the meaning of section 5 of the Public Service Act 2020); and
- a responsible agency only if it is a public service agency.
The chief executive is responsible only to the Public Service Commissioner for carrying out the responsibility under subsection (1).
Sections 12(1)(e) and 52(1)(d) of the Public Service Act 2020 (which relate to stewardship) do not limit this section.