The Justice Committee is calling for public submissions on the Legislation Amendment Bill. The bill seeks to promote high-quality legislation for New Zealand that is easy to find, use, and understand. It aims to do so by:

• requiring departments to electronically publish on their website (or another approved website) any secondary legislation they draft, along with related information
• providing for the New Zealand Legislation website, which the Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO) maintains, to be a single point of access to legislation and information related to legislation
• providing rules, powers, functions, and duties for the PCO, the Attorney-General, and administering agencies to support the changes
• amending other legislation to support and promote consistency with the new publication requirements and enable an orderly transition to them
• improving tools for modernising and simplifying legislation and keeping it up to date
• repealing obsolete or redundant legislation that the PCO has identified as part of its functions under the Legislation Act 2019
• refining provisions for confirming secondary legislation.

Tell the Justice Committee what you think

Make a submission on the bill by 1.00pm on Thursday 28 August 2025.

For more details about the bill:

· Read the full content of the bill

· Get more details about the bill

· What’s been said in Parliament about the bill?

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