Regulatory stewardship
This section explains our stewardship role across regulatory systems, including the main elements of our approach and how we assess regulatory systems.
This section explains our stewardship role across regulatory systems, including the main elements of our approach and how we assess regulatory systems.
This page describes the research, science and innovation system, its objectives and the role of regulation in the system. It lists the main statutes and changes to regulation either planned or in progress.
This page describes the intellectual property regulatory system, its objectives and our qualitative assessment of it. It also lists the main statutes and changes to regulation either planned or in progress.
This page lists regulation supporting economic development. Legislation plays a minor role in supporting economic development.
This page describes the petroleum and minerals regulatory system, its objectives and our qualitative assessment of it. It also lists the main statutes and changes to regulation either planned or in progress.
This page describes the competition regulatory system, its objectives and our qualitative assessment of it. It also lists the main statutes and changes to regulation either planned or in progress.
We undertake a programme of assessment of most of our regulatory systems based on regulation best practice principles and past regulatory failures.
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