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Customer and Product Data Bill

Administrative matters - Regulations, standards, and exemptions - Standards

132: Standards

You could also call this:

“Rules that explain how to follow the law”

The bill suggests that the chief executive might create new rules called standards. These standards can be about anything that this new law says they should or can be about. They can also explain how to do things that the law mentions. This might include details like who should do something, when and where they should do it, and how they should do it. The standards might also say what forms to use, what information to give, and what rules the information needs to follow.

If these new standards don’t match with other rules called regulations, the regulations will be the ones to follow. This means the regulations are more important than the standards if they disagree.

When the chief executive makes these standards, they will be a type of law called secondary legislation. This means they need to follow certain rules about how they are published, which you can find in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 5 Administrative matters
Regulations, standards, and exemptions: Standards

132Standards

  1. The chief executive may make 1 or more standards—

  2. providing for anything that this Act says must or may be provided for by the standards; and
    1. prescribing, for the purposes of any provision of this Act that requires a thing to be done in a manner prescribed by the standards, the manner in which the thing must be done, including prescribing—
      1. by whom, when, where, and how the thing must be done:
        1. the form that must be used in connection with doing the thing:
          1. what information or other evidence or documents must be provided in connection with the thing:
            1. requirements with which information, evidence, or documents that are provided in connection with the thing must comply.

            2. If the standards are inconsistent with the regulations, the regulations prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.

            3. Standards made under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

            Notes