{"id":70171,"date":"2025-05-14T16:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T04:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=70171"},"modified":"2025-07-28T20:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:59:33","slug":"the-regulatory-standards-bill-david-seymour-power-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/the-regulatory-standards-bill-david-seymour-power-grab\/","title":{"rendered":"The Regulatory Standards Bill is Seymour\u2019s next power grab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A deep dive into the bill that could change Aotearoa forever.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

The Regulatory Standards Bill (RSB) isn\u2019t just another law – it\u2019s a plan to hand more power to corporations, erase Te Tiriti o Waitangi from lawmaking, and make it harder for any future government to protect people or nature.<\/p>\n\n

David Seymour – the same politician who tried to rewrite our founding document – is back with a new bill, this time attempting to rewrite the constitutional and legal foundation of Aotearoa.<\/p>\n\n

Seymour wants to embed the same extreme neoliberal ideas about \u201cindividual freedom\u201d and private property rights used by US gun lobbyists and climate deniers to block protections for people and the planet, into our law here in Aotearoa.<\/p>\n\n

Those might be his<\/em> principles, but they\u2019re not ours.<\/p>\n\n

We are a country that values fairness, that defends nature and looks out for one another. And we have to stop this bill.<\/p>\n\n

What exactly is the Regulatory Standards Bill <\/h2>\n\n

The point of the RSB is to try to make all future governments follow a rigid set of ideological \u201cprinciples\u201d handpicked by Seymour when they are making laws.<\/p>\n\n

These principles would:<\/p>\n\n

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  • Exclude Te Tiriti o Waitangi entirely.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Require the government to pay corporations if new rules impact their property, even if those rules are to stop pollution, protect nature, or prevent harm to people and communities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Prioritise private property and \u201cindividual freedom\u201d over environmental protection, public safety, and indigenous rights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

    This law, being pushed by one minor party politician, will tell future elected governments what they can and can\u2019t do, even when New Zealanders vote for change.<\/p>\n\n

    What does the RSB look like in practice?<\/h2>\n\n

    These ACT Party principles are designed so that in all our future laws, corporate profits and individual \u201cfreedoms\u201d will trump environmental protection, public health, and indigenous rights. <\/p>\n\n

    1. Pay-outs to polluters<\/h3>\n\n

    If a new law impacts how a company uses its \u201cproperty\u201d – which could include land, an oil rig, a water use consent, or a mining permit, the RSB says the government must pay compensation. That means the government would have to hand over public money to private corporations just for bringing in basic protections for people and the environment.<\/p>\n\n

    2. Freedom for corporations, not communities<\/h3>\n\n

    The bill treats individual \u201cfreedoms\u201d as paramount. That means companies could challenge environmental or public health rules as violations of their freedoms or their \u201cright\u201d to do whatever they want with their property. <\/p>\n\n

    These ideas are straight out of the US far-right playbook – and they don\u2019t belong here. <\/p>\n\n

    3. No room for equity or Te Tiriti<\/h3>\n\n

    Right now, under their own guidelines, governments are required to consider Te Tiriti when making laws. Seymour\u2019s bill upends that. By explicitly excluding Te Tiriti from the RSB, he is making sure the treaty will no longer guide how laws are made. Instead, the RSB imposes a new legal order built on property rights and \u201cfreedom,\u201d while ignoring our founding document.<\/p>\n\n

    Even the Ministry of Justice has warned that the bill fails to recognise Te Tiriti\u2019s constitutional significance or the Crown\u2019s obligations under it. Oh, and they also mentioned Seymour’s Bill is not in line with the Bill of Rights Act.<\/p>\n\n

    Seymour has also included his favourite principle, \u201ceveryone is equal before the law\u201d – plucked straight from his failed Treaty Principles Bill. It might sound fair, but it deliberately excludes equity. That could make policies designed to address real inequalities, like targeted healthcare for M\u0101ori or Pacific communities, vulnerable under the Regulatory Standards Bill. <\/p>\n\n

    What happens if a law doesn\u2019t follow Seymour\u2019s principles?<\/h2>\n\n

    If a new law doesn\u2019t fit Seymour\u2019s ideology, the government has two choices:<\/p>\n\n

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    1. Change the law to comply, or scrap it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Publicly justify why they\u2019re going against Seymour’s principles.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n

      This will create huge pressure on future governments to avoid bold, progressive reforms – even when they\u2019re urgently needed. It will lock in a culture of deregulation, where any law protecting health, workers or the environment faces delays, legal challenges and payouts to corporations.<\/p>\n\n

      Seymour\u2019s very own corporate complaint board<\/h2>\n\n

      The bill also creates a \u201cRegulatory Standards Board\u201d – a powerful, unelected body chosen entirely by Seymour. Its job is to hear complaints from corporations and individuals and launch investigations into laws that they think are out of line with Seymour\u2019s principles.<\/p>\n\n

      Technically, its rulings aren\u2019t binding, but they\u2019d carry serious political weight. It\u2019s basically a corporate complaint machine designed to stop progressive change and stack the system in favour of big business.<\/p>\n\n

      We\u2019ve stopped this bill before, and we can do it again<\/h2>\n\n

      This is the ACT Party\u2019s fourth<\/em> attempt to pass this bill. They have failed three times. But Seymour is trying again, this time using the coalition deal to push it through.<\/p>\n\n

      We can\u2019t let Seymour rewrite our laws to serve corporate interests, just because Christopher Luxon said he could behind closed doors when they negotiated their coalition agreement.<\/p>\n\n

      This is a fight for the future of Aotearoa. If you care about nature, clean water, Indigenous rights, and a liveable climate. Now\u2019s the time to speak up.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t

      \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEmail your MP\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

      Tell them to stop the Regulatory Standards Bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t \n Take action\n <\/a>\n \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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