Regulation Review - IPART - NSW Government

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2 Local government compliance and enforcement functions IPART seeks comment 12 If you are operating a business across more than 1 council area, how do differences in council approaches impact on your business? 13 How, and in what areas, could coordination between councils be improved to reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens on business and the community? 14 In what areas could mutual recognition (eg, recognition of registration in multiple local government areas) be used to reduce regulatory burdens on business or the community? 15 What other approaches could be used to improve the way councils apply regulations? 30 IPART Regulation Review
3 Identifying reform opportunities 3 Identifying reform opportunities More efficient regulation can boost productivity and promote economic growth in many ways. For example, it minimises the time businesses spend complying with regulatory requirements, which can increase their ability to innovate, be entrepreneurial and respond creatively and quickly to market opportunities or threats. 49 For regulation to be efficient, it must be efficient in both design and implementation. This chapter discusses the impacts that local government compliance and enforcement activities can have on business and the community, and identifies some potential sources of unnecessary regulatory burdens – which can relate to both the design and implementation of regulation. It then seeks to articulate some best practice regulatory enforcement principles to guide this review. Lastly, we consider some of the leading practices highlighted by the PC’s review of local government as a regulator, 50 as a possible source of reform opportunities for NSW. 3.1 The impacts of local government regulatory activities Regulation requires businesses and individuals to undertake certain tasks to comply with the rules. These may include, for example, form filling, making a property available for inspection or purchasing equipment to ensure standards are meet. Complying with regulatory requirements is likely to incur some costs. Some of these costs may be small, but some may have a significant impact on the business, individual or the community. The Better Regulation Office (BRO) outlines 4 cost categories that we will assess under the red tape reduction target. These include: Administrative costs – which are often incurred in demonstrating compliance with a regulation through information-related activities such as completing and lodging forms and applications (eg, form filling to obtain an approval, inspections, certification, audits and reporting). 49 Better Regulation Office, Guide to Better Regulation, November 2009, p 7. 50 Productivity Commission, Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation: The Role of Local Government as Regulator, July 2012. Regulation Review IPART 31
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