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Quick Guide: Regulation in New Zealand

01 September 2024 Regulation is all around us in our daily lives. This quick guide defines the key concepts used in regulatory practice.

Support for regulators / Resources for regulators

Quick Guides to good regulatory practice

Our Quick Guides, created with subject matter experts across the public sector, explain the fundamentals of regulatory practice in New Zealand.

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Ministry for Regulation news March 2025

Read the latest news and updates from the Ministry.

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Our work / What we've done

Regulation wrap for 2024

2024 has been a big one for the new Ministry for Regulation.

Accessibility statement

This accessibility statement applies to the Ministry for Regulation website, regulation.govt.nz.

Our role

Our role is to strengthen New Zealand’s Regulatory Management System and to improve regulatory quality, including the experience that New Zealanders have of complying with regulation.

Meeting regulatory impact analysis (RIA) requirements

We provide RIA guidance to agencies to ensure their regulatory proposals comply with Cabinet’s impact analysis requirements.

Disclosure statements for government legislation

Agencies need to prepare and publish a disclosure statement to accompany the introduction of most government Bills and Amendment Papers to Parliament.

The Ministry for Regulation worked with Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori – The Māori Language Commission to develop a te reo Māori name to sit alongside our English name. The name suggested by Te Taura Whiri is Te Manatū Waeture.

Regulatory sector review into early childhood education announced

Regulation Minister David Seymour has confirmed the first regulatory sector review will be into early childhood education.