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Regulatory Impact Analysis Handbook

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  • Regulatory Impact Analysis Handboook
  • Published: 2 Nov 2009
  • Status: Current. Supersedes Guidelines on the Regulatory Impact Analysis Requirements (November 2008).
  • Author: The Treasury
    • Hard copy: Available in PDF format only. HTML available on request from information@treasury.govt.nz.
    • Persistent URL:
      http://www.purl.org/nzt/g-ria
     

    Regulatory Impact Analysis Handbook

    Published 2 Nov 2009

    Detailed guidance on regulatory impact analysis (RIA), preparing a regulatory impact statement (RISs) and for providing quality assurance of regulatory proposals.

    This handbook provides an overview of regulatory impact analysis and guidance on the main elements of Cabinet's RIA requirements. It incorporates Cabinet's decisions on changes to the RIA requirements taken during 2009, which came into effect on 2 November 2009.

    The handbook supports and supplements the information provided in the CabGuide and in Cabinet Office Circular CO (09) 8. It replaces the Guidelines on the Regulatory Impact Analysis Requirements published by the Treasury in November 2008. There is a separate section for each of the main elements of the RIA requirements.

    The quick guide to Cabinet's Regulatory Impact Analysis requirements is available in MS Word format: ria-cab-quick.doc (79 KB).

    The following templates in MS Word format are available for download:

    The Handbook is available in Adobe PDF format only for the time being. An HTML version will be available in due course.

    Using MS Word Files Using MS Word Files

    Contents

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    A quick guide to Cabinet’s Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) requirements

    About this handbook

    1  When do the RIA requirements apply?

    1.1 Exemptions
    1.2 Discussion documents
    1.3 Supplementary Order Papers
    1.4 International treaties

    2  Undertaking Regulatory Impact Analysis

    2.1 The purpose of RIA
    2.2 Levels of analysis
    2.3 Describe the status quo
    2.4 Identify the nature and scale of the problem
    2.5 Define the objectives
    2.6 Identify the full range of feasible options
    2.7 Analyse the options
    2.8 Implementation
    2.9 Monitoring, evaluation and review

    3  Preliminary impact and risk assessment

    3.1 What is a PIRA?
    3.2 The significance criteria
    3.3 Process for completing the PIRA
    3.4 If RIAT involvement is required

    4  Consultation

    5  Preparing the RIS

    5.1 Disclosure statement
    5.2 Required information
    5.3 RISs for in-principle or intermediate policy decisions
    5.4 Consultation and circulation

    6  Obtaining quality assurance

    6.1 Independent quality assurance
    6.2 Quality assurance criteria
    6.3 Features of a robust quality assurance process

    7  Preparing the Cabinet paper

    7.1 Regulatory Impact Analysis requirements
    7.2 Quality of the Impact Analysis
    7.3 Consistency with Government Statement on Regulation

    8  Publishing the RIS

    8.1 Withholding sensitive or confidential information
    8.2 Timing of publication
    8.3 Process for publication

    9  Regulatory proposals that do not meet the RIA requirements

    9.1 Significant proposals that do not meet the RIA requirements

    Annex 1 – Preliminary impact and risk assessment

    Annex 2 – Regulatory Impact Statement: Overview of required information

    Annex 3 – Quality assurance criteria

    		 ria-handbk-nov09.pdf (275 KB) pp. (2),40
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