Other Instruments

List of all Other Instruments on the New Zealand Legislation website »

For help with locating individual Other Instruments on the New Zealand Legislation website, see How to search and browse.

Information for agencies that make Other Instruments: Notifying Other Instruments to the PCO »

What are Other Instruments?

Other Instruments, in the context of the New Zealand Legislation website, are instruments that are made under Acts or the Royal prerogative and that may have legislative effect, but are not Legislative Instruments. They are made by Ministers, officials, or organisations, rather than the Executive Council on the recommendation of Cabinet. Examples include most land transport rules, civil aviation rules, and a wide variety of other rules, codes, and other instruments. They are not usually drafted by the PCO.

Some Other Instruments were previously known as deemed regulations.

For further information about Other Instruments, or deemed regulations, see:

Report of the Regulations Review Committee: Inquiry into Instruments Deemed to be Regulations—An Examination of Delegated Legislation (AJHR I.16R) (July 1999)

Government Response to the Report of the Regulations Review Committee on its Inquiry into Instruments Deemed to be Regulations—An Examination of Delegated Legislation (AJHR A.5) (October 1999)

Further Government Response to the Report of the Regulations Review Committee on its Inquiry into Instruments Deemed to be Regulations—An Examination of Delegated Legislation (AJHR A.5) (November 2000)

Report of the Regulations Review Committee: Inquiry into oversight of disallowable instruments that are not legislative instruments (I.16H) (11 July 2014)

Government Response to the Report of the Regulations Review Committee on Inquiry into the oversight of disallowable instruments that are not legislative instruments (9 December 2014)