Regulatory Responsibility Bill worth a lookFeel that the legislative process in New Zealand could be more transparent and that policy-making would benefit from more rigorous scrutiny?
The draft Regulatory Responsibility Bill seeks to address these concerns by imposing new disciplines on the law-makers.
The Government has prepared a set of questions on the Bill and has invited submissions to the Regulatory Quality Team within the Treasury by 27 August 2010. Chapman Tripp submission on the draft Code of Professional Conduct for Authorised Financial AdvisersThis submission reflects the views of the following specialists in our financial sector regulation team: Tim Williams, Frank McLaughlin, Roger Wallis, Mike Woodbury, Bradley Kidd, Penny Sheerin, Emma Harding and Pippa Tasker. NZ Productivity Commission Bill The New Zealand Productivity Commission will take a step closer to reality today when the establishing legislation has its first reading in the House.
The model is the Australian Productivity Commission which has been widely judged a success. Clearly, however, it is only a very small part of the explanation for why Australia has been out-pointing New Zealand in productivity performance over the last several years. |