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APPENDIX B

Examples of advisory work undertaken by the Commission in the year to 30 June 1995

Legislative reviews

Advice to the Securities Commission on regulations and proposals for amendments to the Securities Act 1978.

Comments on the draft Code of Rights for Consumers of Health and Disability Services.

Advice to the Department of Social Welfare on the consolidation of, and the reintroduction of privileges into, the Social Security Act 1964.

Advice to the Inland Revenue Department on drafting guidelines for tax legislation, core provisions, and the binding rulings regime.

Advice to the Ministry of Transport on land and maritime transport reforms.

Policy proposals

Advice to the Ministry of Health on food standard setting (trans-Tasman initiatives), the public health regulatory review, and occupational regulation.

Advice on the restructurings of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, and the Office of the Auditor-General.

Comment on the initiatives of Business Compliance Cost Reduction and the Quality of Regulation project (the Treasury and the Ministry

of Commerce).

Membership of the Department of Justice Review Group and the Courts Services Review Group.

Advice to the Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Corporation as part of the Eminent Persons Advisory Group, and also to the Corporation directly on issues of legislative policy.

Advice to the Department of Social Welfare on asset testing and residential care.

Advice to the Regulations Review Committee on the Australian Legislative Amendments Bill.

Constitutional issues

Advice to Ministers on proportional representation and on Maori governance issues.

Regular and ongoing involvement

Participation in, and provision of assistance to, the Law and Economics Association of New Zealand.

Membership of the Courts Consultative Committee and the Judicial Working Group on Gender Equity.

Contribution to the Public Law Review.