3 Preparing the Cabinet paper
While the RIS is a document produced by an agency summarising its analysis of an identified problem, the associated Cabinet paper is usually written from the perspective of a Minister.
All Cabinet papers must include a section entitled Regulatory Impact Analysis to link the two documents. This section includes the following information.
- Statement explaining whether the RIA requirements apply to the proposal or any alternative options in the paper which Ministers may select, and if not, the specific exemption being claimed.
- Whether a RIS has been prepared and attached to the Cabinet paper, and if not, the reasons why.
- An independent government agency opinion on the quality of the analysis which states the following:
“[Name of team or position of person[10] completing opinion - either from authoring agency or RIAT] has reviewed the Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) prepared by [name ofagency] and associated supporting material, and
[Statement on whether the reviewer considers that the information and analysis summarised in the RIS meets/does not meet/partially meets the quality assurance criteria
[Comment on any issues that have been identified in relation to any of the dimensions of quality specified in the quality assurance criteria].”
Ministers no longer need to certify in the Cabinet paper that proposals are consistent with the 2009 Government Statement on Regulation.
Notes
- [10]If the quality assurance has been provided by, eg, an internal RIS review panel, the name of this panel would be stated. Otherwise the position title of the reviewer should be stated (eg, Manager, [ … ] Team).
