Regulatory Plan 2009-10

Each Commonwealth agency that has responsibility for business regulation is required to publish a regulatory plan on its website early in each financial year. It contains information about:

changes to business regulation that have occurred since the beginning of the previous financial year
activities planned in the current financial year that could lead to changes to business regulation.

What regulation does a regulatory plan cover?

A regulatory plan covers business regulation. This includes primary legislation, subordinate legislation, quasi-regulation or treaties that directly affect business, have a significant indirect effect on business, or restrict competition.

Quasi-regulation refers to rules or arrangements where governments influence businesses to comply, but which do not form part of explicit government regulation.

A regulatory plan does not include information about the following:

regulations that are likely to have no or a low impact on business and individuals or the economy
regulations that involve consideration of specific Government purchases
regulations of a state or self-governing territory that apply in a non-self governing territory
anticipated activity about which it would be inappropriate to publish information on grounds of confidentiality.

In addition, there may be regulatory activities undertaken during a particular financial year that were not included because they could not be foreseen when the plan was prepared.

In view of these exclusions, users should not regard a regulatory plan as a comprehensive source of information on past or potential changes to business regulation.