Regulatory Standards Bill Submission starter
Regulatory Standards Bill submission starter
- Download submission starter
- At para 1 and 2 add your name and if you want to speak to the Finance and Expenditure Committee
- If you want your submission to be unique, make any changes or additions
- Submit through the Finance and Expenditure Committee website by 1pm, MONDAY 23 JUNE 2025
Who am I?
Roimata Smail (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui) is a lawyer with two decades of experience specialising in Te Tiriti o Waitangi. She represented lead claimants in the Waitangi Tribunal Hauora Inquiry that led to the establishment of the Māori Health Authority Te Aka Whai Ora. She also acted on claims about Māori in prison, pēpi removed by Oranga Tamariki and the Crown response to COVID-19, and in cases under the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 and Takutai Moana Act 2011. She has a passion for education and runs workshops on Te Tiriti around Aotearoa, created an online resource for schools Waiako.com, wrote the NZ #1 bestselling book Understanding Te Tiriti in January 2024.
What is it?
I have written a submission starter to help you make a submission opposing the Regulatory Standards Bill. I am giving it to every New Zealander that wants to use it, through my website www.waiakobooks.com.
Why?
The Regulatory Standards Bill, creates new principles about what should be in our laws. The new principles ignore Te Tiriti o Waitangi. It is important that New Zealanders tell the Government that it is not ok to undermine our country’s founding agreement, by passing a law that makes up new principles which ignore what was agreed in 1840.
Why now?
If this Bill becomes a law it will give power to the Minister for Regulation David Seymour, his Ministry for Regulation and a new Board chosen by him to review nearly all of our laws against new principles that ignore Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Who can use this?
Any New Zealander. This submission starter is for New Zealanders who want to stand up for Te Tiriti when those in power try to ignore it. Based on the quantity of sales of my book, I know that Aotearoa is interested in learning the facts about Te Tiriti o Waitangi. My book is short and simple and so is this submission starter. It is only one page. I hope that if people haven't read my book yet or heard a talk from me, that even in reading the submission they'll learn some basic facts.
Do templates count?
Myth: Template submissions don’t count
Fact: False. The Finance and Expenditure Committee will know how many people have made a submission, even if they used a template or submission starter. If you can write your own submission that is great of course. But if you would otherwise not make any submission - use a template or a submission starter. Even if the Committee says “we received 5,000 identical submissions so we will treat them as one submission”, that is a strong message to the committee that 5,000 people have said the same thing, just like a petition.
How?
- Download submission starter
- At para 1 and 2 add your name and if you want to speak to the Finance and Expenditure Committee
- If you want your submission to be unique, make any changes or additions
- Submit through the Finance and Expenditure Committee website by 1pm, MONDAY 23 JUNE 2025
What if I have problems?
Contact the Finance and Expenditure Committee by phone 04 817 9520 or by email RegulatoryStandardsBill@parliament.govt.nz
When?
Now. Submissions close 1pm, MONDAY 23 JUNE 2025
