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The original was posted on /r/newzealand by /u/Annie354654 on 2025-01-14 21:05:58+00:00.

There has been a lot of noise around the Regulatory Standards Bill in that submissions have closed. The reports I have been reading and listening to make it sound like the Select Committee process of submissions has closed, this is not the case!

What I would say to you is, submissions to the content of the Regulatory Standards Bill to the Ministry of Regulation have closed. This is feedback on what should be in the Bill, not submissions on the Bill itself.

The Bill itself has not been ‘written’ yet, and won’t be introduced to Parliament until later this year. I understand Ministry of Regulation has received around 30,000 ‘submissions’ (read feedback) on the contents of this Bill, this is more submissions than Parliament would usually get in an entire year!

Please note, the biggest issues with this Bill as I see it, is (beyond the content and the powers to the Minister of Regulation (Seymour))

- National and NZ First have signed up, in the coalition agreement, to support this Bill all the way through to legislating it. For them to vote against it they would be breaking the coalition agreement.

- It renders the Treaty Principles bill meaningless (and achieves worse outcomes).

This is just the beginning of this proposed Bill. Let’s not drop the ball with this one.