The Treasury’s regulatory functions, including responsibility for New Zealand’s Regulatory Management System, have transferred to the Ministry for Regulation. Information about regulation can now be found on the Ministry for Regulation’s website.
A regulatory impact statement (RIS) provides a high-level summary of the problem being addressed, the options and their associated costs and benefits, the consultation undertaken, and the proposed arrangements for implementation and review.
Publication of regulatory impact statements
To help ensure that the regulatory process is open and transparent, RISs prepared to support the consideration of regulatory proposals are published at the time the relevant bill is introduced to Parliament or the regulation is gazetted, or at the time of Ministerial release.
From 1 October 2024, RISs are published on the Ministry for Regulation’s website:
Regulatory impact statements (RISs) - Ministry for Regulation
All existing RISs published before 1 October 2024 will remain on this website for the meantime, as well as on the responsible department’s website.
RISs authored by the Treasury are usually available in HTML and Adobe PDF formats. RISs authored by another agency will be provided in Adobe PDF format with a link to where the RIS is available on the agency's own website.
RISs are listed in chronological order according to the date the related bill was introduced to Parliament or the related regulations were gazetted, or the time of Ministerial release.
How to publish
To publish a RIS on the Ministry for Regulation’s website, please create a proposal in RIA Online and fill in the publication form.
See Impact Analysis Requirements for Regulatory Proposals for details on how to sign up to RIA Online.
Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions.