Bill
Mandatory Regulation Impact Statement Bill 2025
before parliament, as at 2025-11-03.
- Sponsor
- Tammy Tyrrell
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-11-03
- second reading — 2025-11-03
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2025-11-03.
The bill would force any person who brings a federal bill or rule before Parliament to also table a statement of its expected effects.
That statement must weigh the costs and benefits for businesses, community groups and individuals, and describe other ways the policy could be achieved.
The requirement starts the day after the Act receives royal assent, and a failure to provide the statement would not make the bill or rule invalid.
- Requires a Regulation Impact Statement to be prepared for every bill and legislative instrument, not just government ones.
- Makes the existing rule from the Legislative Handbook 2017 a legal requirement.
- Expands the requirement to cover non-government proposed bills and instruments.
Members of Parliament introducing bills or legislative instruments, and businesses, community organisations and individuals affected by those laws.
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