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Regulatory Standards Bill

Regulatory reviews and information-gathering powers - Information for regulatory reviews

43: Power to obtain information to enable regulatory reviews

You could also call this:

"Getting info to check if laws are working well"

This part of the bill would give the head of the regulatory standards department the power to ask for information. They could ask government agencies and some other people for details they need to check how well laws are working.

The head of the department could send a written notice asking for this information. They could ask government departments, people who make rules, and others who do jobs set out in laws. They could also ask people hired by these groups to help with their work.

The notice would say when and how to give the information. The person or group who gets the notice would have to provide the information as asked.

This new rule wouldn't change any existing laws that stop certain information from being shared.

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Part 3Regulatory reviews and information-gathering powers
Information for regulatory reviews

43Power to obtain information to enable regulatory reviews

  1. The chief executive of the regulatory standards Ministry may, by a written notice, require an agency or a person referred to in subsection (2) to supply to the chief executive any information that is necessary or desirable to enable the regulatory standards Ministry to review (in whole or in part) any regulatory system to which any legislation relates.

  2. The agencies or persons are—

  3. any of the following (a principal agency):
    1. a public service agency:
      1. an administering agency of secondary legislation:
        1. a maker of secondary legislation:
          1. an agency or a person that performs a function that is imposed under legislation; and
          2. a person that is engaged under a contract with a principal agency to support or facilitate the performance of a function that is imposed under legislation.

            1. A notice must state the date by which, and the manner in which, the information must be provided.

            2. The agency or person must supply to the chief executive the information within the time, and in the manner, specified in the notice.

            3. This section does not limit any legislation that imposes a prohibition or restriction on the availability of any information.