The Regulatory Standards Bill aims to improve the quality of regulation in New Zealand. The Ministry for Regulation received almost 23,000 submissions on the bill - about 80% in t ...

The ACT Party fought to have a Treaty of Waitangi clause stripped out of amended education legislation - but was overruled.

Multiple submitters on Monday called the bill "constitutionally unsound", whilst its supporters were few and far between.

Te Kotahitanga o Ngā Hapū Ngāpuhi is an informal group initially set up by Tipene and the late Rudy Taylor to oppose ...

The reviewers of all Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation include three lawyers and a director, and will be expected to ...

Analysis – With select committee hearings complete, the many submitters who called for the Regulatory Standards Bill to be thrown out – in the compost, as one put it – are destined for disappointment.

A select committee hearing on David Seymour’s Regulatory Standards Bill turned into “academic jousting” on Tuesday morning as Labour’s Dr Deborah Russell w ...