Who to appoint as regulatory designers?
A critical driver and shaper of regulation is who is appointed to develop the design and the scope of the designer’s mandate. New Zealand, like comparable jurisdictions, can seek advice from
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Officials – the bureaucracy provides policy capability charged with providing ‘free and frank’ advice and also with implementing the government’s policy agenda
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Experts – such as the Tax Working Group www.victoria.ac.nz/sacl/cagtr/twg
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Collaborative forums– such as the Land and Water Forum www.landandwater.org.nz/
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International experts – such as Schick Review of New Zealand Public Management www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/media-speeches/guestlectures/schick-aug01
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Commission a group such as the Hunn Review of Leaky Buildings
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James Zuccollo, Mike Hensen and John Yeabsley “Weathertight Buildings and Performance-based Regulation: What Lessons can be Drawn from a Complicated and Evolving Situation?” in Susy Frankel and Deborah Ryder (eds) Recalibrating Behaviour: Smarter Regulation in a Global World (LexisNexis 2013). An independent inquiry begins, chaired by former State Services Commissioner Don Hunn, and reporting to the BIA. Inquiry warns in its interim report of a potential “systemic breakdown” across the building industry. See footnote [59] Parliamentary Library Leaky Buildings (Background Note, 2002/10, 6 November 2002) at 18; see also Andrew Laxon "Where the Rot Really Set In" The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand, 10 October 2002).