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1. Solar review launched to cut cost and complexity

   Residential and small to medium scale solar regulatory review.

   News

   Content: The Ministry for Regulation has launched a Sector Review into the installation of residential and small to medium‑scale solar, with the aim of reducing ... Initial advice will be provided to the Minister for Regulation later this year. ...

2. Exclusions from the Act

   For agencies / The Regulatory Standards Act

   Content: Exclusions process and advice Note: The Ministry for Regulation is unable to grant one-off or case-by-case exclusions. ... The Ministry for Regulation is unable to advise on the application of exclusions to individual cases. ...

3. Common questions about the Act

   For agencies / The Regulatory Standards Act

   Content: The Ministry for Regulation cannot grant exclusions on a case-by-case basis in addition to the exclusions set out in Schedule 2 of the Act. ...   Statutory guidance has been issued under section 26 of the Act by the Minister for Regulation and the Attorney‑General. ...

4. For agencies

   Content: System New Zealand's RMS is the set of policies, institutions, processes and tools used by central government to pursue and maintain good quality regulation ... arrow_forward The Regulatory Standards Act The Regulatory Standards Act 2025 aims to improve the quality of regulation in New Zealand arrow_forward Developing ...

5. Government amendment exemptions

   Government amendments that do not materially change a bill may be exempt from CAS requirements

   For agencies / Developing legislation

   Content: What agencies need to do The Minister for Regulation has delegated to the Ministry for Regulation the power to determine whether a Government amendment ...

6. No more trout pout

   Our work / What we've done

   Content:   Regulation Minister David Seymour has written to Oceans and Fisheries Minister Hon Shane Jones and Conservation Minister Hon Tama Potaka to advocate ...

7. Information releases

   About us

   Content: links to the Cabinet papers and minutes we proactively release, responses to Official Information Act requests, weekly reports to the Minister for Regulation ...   View all proactive releases arrow_forward Weekly reports The Ministry proactively releases weekly reports provided to the Minister for Regulation ...

8. Residential and small to medium scale solar review

   Regulatory reviews

   Content: What the review covers The review focuses on regulation applying to: residential and small to medium‑scale solar systems rooftop and ground‑mounted installations ...

9. 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.

   

   Publications and resources / Resource library

   Summary: findings from a review of a broad scope of international academic literature on regulatory failure structured according to four broad perspectives on regulation ...

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

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

    

    Publications and resources / Resource library

    Summary: Paper explores ways of conceptualising regulation as complex, adaptive systems ...

11. Professionalising regulatory practice: Lessons from the New Zealand G-REG Initiative. State of the Art in Regulatory Governance Research Paper

    01 June 2020 A discussion of developing a professional community of regulators within public sectors using the G-REG initiative as a case study

    

    Publications and resources / Resource library

12. Regulatory Policy, Practice & Performance Framework

    01 August 2024 Whole‑of‑government framework to help policymakers and regulators assess environmental changes and respond to emerging risks and opportunities

    

    Publications and resources / Resource library