Assessing the stock of regulation: A tool for regulatory stewards
Boer, David de; Gill, Derek; Destremau, Killian; Hensen, Mike | May 2016
Abstract
New Zealand, like other OECD countries, has been active in developing a regulatory management system since the mid-1980s but the prime focus has been posing ‘big policy’ questions to review the flow of new laws and regulations through tools such as Regulatory Impact Assessment. Until recently responsibility for keeping the stock of regulation up to date was not assigned. New Zealand regulatory policy has gone through four overlapping phases (Gill 2016):
1. Sector-based reform – with extensive regulatory reform in 1984 and the early 1990s and
ongoing changes thereafter
2. Compliance cost reduction – an episodic series of initiatives introduced from the early 1990s
until the mid-2000s
3. Regulatory flow management – the flow of new regulations has been focussed through
Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) and a Code of Good Regulatory Practice commencing in
1998
4. Regulatory stock management – increased emphasis on stock management, starting in 2009,
in addition to flow management.
Citation
Boer, David de; Gill, Derek; Destremau, Killian; Hensen, Mike. 2016. Assessing the stock of regulation: A tool for regulatory stewards. © New Zealand Institute of Economic Research. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9208.ISSN
1176-4384
Keywords
Results-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
Public Policy Evaluation
Project Evaluation & Review Technique
Operations Evaluation
Governance
Corporate Governance Reform
Public Administration
Institutional Framework
Corporate Restructuring
Needs assessment
Project impact
Resources evaluation
Grievance procedures
Risk assessment
Decentralization in government
Civil government
Political development
Subnational governments
Law
Civil rights
Legislation
Municipal government
Cumulative effects assessment
Human rights and globalization
Government
Political development
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