The NZCTU recommends that no further work on the Regulatory Standards Bill is undertaken.
The proposed Bill, like its predecessors, is designed to reduce the quantum and reach of regulation, based on the simplistic idea that less regulation leads to better economic outcomes. Further, the proposed Bill seeks to embed a set of libertarian political beliefs about individual property rights as standards of good lawmaking. These are fundamentally political claims, and seeking to embed them in a form of meta-regulation such as this is undemocratic.