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Annual Regulatory Plan

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, like other Commonwealth agencies, is required to publish a regulatory plan on its website each financial year. The regulatory plan deals with the Department's area of responsibility and contains information about:

• changes to business regulation which have occurred since the beginning of the previous financial year; and
• activities planned in the current financial year which 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 which 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 of a minor or machinery nature that do not substantially alter existing arrangements;
• regulations that involve consideration of specific Government purchases;
• regulations of a state or self-governing territory that apply in a non-self governing territory; and
• anticipated activity about which it would be inappropriate to publish information on grounds of confidentiality.

Regulatory Plans

• Completed regulatory activity 2010-11 - RTF 140KB | PDF 136KB
• Planned regulatory activity 2011-12 - RTF 163KB | PDF 116KB