Commission calls for check on regulations
PA Wellington The Economic Development Commission says it is “imperative” to look at new regulations before they affected the lives of New Zealanders. The commission also called for a strategy to review existing regulations — which in many cases could mean examining primary legislation. The Government-ap-pointed commission’s recommendations were in its first big publication, “Regulatory Reform”, which was presented to
the Minister of Justice, Mr Palmer.
The 40-page report said that in spite of deregulation made by the Government since it came into office in July, 1984, many regulations still existed and new regulations were constantly introduced.
The commission cites 383 statutory regulations listed in 1986, including 46 new sets of regulations, 11 sets concerned with fees and levies, and 138 amendments to existing regulations. The regulations covered technical and administrative detail, regulatory structures, occupational licensing matters and other issues.
The commission’s chairman and a former Secretary to the Treasury, Mr Bernard Galvin, said a better system of introducing and reviewing regulations “has the potential to provide significant economic returns both in the immediate future and in the medium to long term.” He said the commission wanted to concentrate on the economic impacts of Government intervention.
Overseas experience had shown an essential first step in improving the quality of Government intervention was to develop and implement a process for scrutinising new regulations in an open and
“rigorous” fashion. “By concentrating initially on reform of the regulatory process the E.D.C. is taking the first step towards the broader goal of improving the quality of all Government intervention,” Mr Galvin said.
The commission’s report tried to help the Government set policy on regulatory reform, complementing the work of a Parliamentary select committee, the work of the Government’s Regulatory Reform Unit on the impact of regulations on the economy, and work of the Government’s Legislation Advisory Committee on guidelines for formulating legislation and its content
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