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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

19: When regular review of secondary legislation is required

You could also call this:

"When do we check if secondary laws are working well?"

This part of the bill talks about when secondary laws need to be checked regularly. Secondary laws are rules made by the government that aren't main laws.

The bill says these secondary laws need to be checked if someone has already written a report about how well they follow the main rules. They also need to be checked if the minister in charge of rules says they should be.

But some secondary laws don't need to be checked. These include laws made under special Acts, laws that just change other laws, and laws that aren't used anymore.

The minister can say which types of secondary laws need to be checked. But before they do this, they need to get permission from Parliament.

If the minister does make a list of laws to be checked, this list is also a type of secondary law. It needs to be published according to the rules in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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18: When regular review of Act is not required, or

"When you don't need to check a law again"

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

"Rules for checking if old laws are still good"

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

19When regular review of secondary legislation is required

Section 17 applies to secondary legislation only if—
a consistency accountability statement has previously been prepared for—
1. the secondary legislation; or
2. other secondary legislation that amends the secondary legislation; or
the secondary legislation is of a class specified in a notice issued under this section.

However, section 17 does not apply to—
secondary legislation that is made under an excluded Act; or
secondary legislation to the extent that it contains amendments to other legislation; or
secondary legislation that has been revoked or is otherwise no longer in effect.

The regulatory standards Minister may issue a notice for the purposes of subsection (1)(b).
A notice may be issued under this section only after it has been approved by a resolution of the House of Representatives.
A notice issued under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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