Regulatory Plans
This section provides access to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship regulatory plans.
Regulatory Plans provide information about past and future regulatory change that is likely to be of interest to businesses in Australia because that change may have an impact on the way in which they do business.
Regulatory Plans are not exhaustive listings of all regulatory activity carried out by the portfolio.
What regulation does a Regulatory Plan cover?
A regulatory plan provides information about prior and future changes in business regulation. 'Business regulation' includes primary legislation, subordinate legislation, quasi regulation or treaties which have medium business compliance costs or a significant impact on business and individuals or the economy.
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
- regulations that do not have an impact on business.
In addition, there may be regulatory activities undertaken during the future financial year which have not been included in a regulatory plan because they could not be foreseen when the plan was prepared. Therefore regulatory plans are not exhaustive listings of all regulatory activity carried out by the portfolio.