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2. Ministry for Regulation news – June 2026

   Improving how regulation works in practice

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3. Residential and small to medium scale solar review

   Regulatory reviews

4. Regulatory failure: A review of the international academic literature

   01 February 2022 A research paper that presents findings from a review of a broad scope of international academic literature on regulatory failure structured according to four broad perspectives on regulation: public interest theory, public choice theory, private interest theory, and institutional theories.

   

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5. Smarter regulation through experiments: how NSW should road-test regulations

   01 May 2025 This paper sets out how agencies can use a regulatory experimentation approach to improve community outcomes from their regulation

   

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6. Regulators’ Experimentation Toolkit

   15 June 2026 A Canadian toolkit to help regulators identify, design, and carry out regulatory experiments.

   

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7. Strategic Intentions 2026/27-2029/30

   16 June 2026

   About us / Our publications

8. Our Strategic Intentions 2026/27 – 2029/30

   Our Strategic Intentions sets out our role, what we aim to achieve, and the priorities guiding our work over the next four years.

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9. Behavioural Insights and Regulatory Practice: a review of the international academic literature

   01 February 2019 Paper discusses behavioural insights and regulatory practice for managers and frontline workers in regulatory organisations in NZ

   

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10. Towards a profession of public regulation: lessons from the New Zealand G-Reg initiative

    01 August 2020 Examines G‑REG as a cross‑agency training programme and its role in building a more professional regulatory workforce

    

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11. Systems thinking and regulatory governance: a review of the international literature

    01 February 2020 Paper explores ways of conceptualising regulation as complex, adaptive systems

    

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12. The politics of regulation: a review of the international academic literature

    01 May 2021 Discussion on theories on the need for regulation: economic perspectives, public interest perspectives, and institutional perspectives

    

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