A routine annual bill that confirms secondary legislation made between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2025 under seven Acts, preventing it from being revoked at the time those Acts otherwise require.
These are claims MPs made in Parliament’s debate — not verified facts.
This is a routine annual bill that “confirms” certain pieces of secondary legislation — rules, regulations, levies, and orders made by ministers or officials under existing Acts rather than by Parliament directly. Some parent Acts require that this delegated legislation be confirmed by Parliament within a set time, or it automatically lapses (is revoked). The bill lists such instruments made under several different Acts and keeps them legally in force. It mainly affects the sectors those rules regulate — for example fees, levies, and quotas — and does not create new policy of its own.
The confirmation mechanism is a deliberate check built into certain Acts: because these instruments impose ongoing obligations like charges or levies, Parliament reserves the right to periodically re-endorse them. The argument for is democratic oversight — it forces regular parliamentary sign-off on rules that would otherwise sit outside direct scrutiny. The argument against is that in practice these bills bundle many instruments together and are largely formal, offering limited real examination of each one.
See the Parliament.nz ↗ site for the full bill.