This page describes the regulatory system for employment relations and standards, its objectives and our qualitative assessment of it. It also lists the main statutes and changes to regulation either proposed or in progress.
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has approved the registration of Christchurch-based Building Consent Approvals Limited (BCAL) as New Zealand’s first standalone building consent authority (BCA).
Local government water supply and wastewater services are subject to economic regulation under Part 4 of the Commerce Act 1986. This is part of the Government’s Local Water Done Well programme.
This section sets out the proposed fees given the level of cost to be recovered after levy revenue has been applied to each register. The tables within each subsection show what the total charge for specific register services would be, made up of proposed fees and applicable proposed levies.