Regulation Review - IPART - NSW Government

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Contents
Invitation for submissions
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1 Introduction 1
1.1 What has IPART been asked to do? 1
1.2 How IPART will approach the task 3
1.3 Other related reviews 4
1.4 How and when you can provide input to this review? 7
1.5 What does the rest of this paper cover? 9
1.6 List of issues on which we seek comment 9
2 Local government compliance and enforcement functions 13
2.1 The number and diversity of councils in NSW 13
2.2 What are local government compliance and enforcement functions? 14
2.3 The relationship between State and local government 20
2.4 The regulatory capacity and capability of local government 24
2.5 The relationships between councils 27
3 Identifying reform opportunities 31
3.1 The impacts of local government regulatory activities 31
3.2 Sources of unnecessary regulatory burden 32
3.3 Best practice regulatory enforcement 34
3.4 Possible reforms to regulatory practices – leading practices 35
4 Estimating the impacts of recommended reforms 49
4.1 Ensuring our recommendations produce net benefits to NSW 49
4.2 Estimating reduced regulatory costs from our recommended reforms 50
4.3 Estimating the budget implications for government 58
Appendices
A Terms of Reference 59
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