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2012 standards policy and infrastructure review
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2012 standards policy and infrastructure review
Our 2012 review of New Zealand’s standards policy and infrastructure resulted in the Standards and Accreditation Act 2015 which changed New Zealand’s standards system.
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The Act's purpose
The Standards and Accreditation Act 2015 aims to ensure standards and accreditation systems are:
- viable
- well-functioning
- continuing to meet the needs of business, regulators, and consumers into the future.
What the Act did
- The Act established a new independent statutory board to approve New Zealand standards and membership of standards development committees.
- It retained and strengthened main elements of the current arrangements, such as codifying in legislation the role of balanced committees of technical experts in developing standards.
- It located the development of standards in our Ministry. This ensured closer alignment with government objectives.
- It strengthened the existing cost-recovery model, by providing for full life-cycle costing of standards.
- It repealed the Testing Laboratory Registration Act 1972 and incorporated its provisions into the Standards and Accreditation Act.
- It better reflected the Testing Laboratory Registration Council’s accreditation activities, including renaming the Council the Accreditation Council.