These regulations amend the Legislation (Publication) Regulations 2021 (the principal regulations) and come into force on 21 November 2024.

These regulations amend Schedule 2 of the principal regulations by adding section 40 of the Chartered Professional Engineers of New Zealand Act 2002 (the CPENZA) to the list of empowering provisions to which section 74(1)(aa) of the Legislation Act 2019 (the Act) applies. Section 40 of the CPENZA is a provision that empowers the making of rules by the Institution of Professional Engineers of New Zealand Incorporated. Currently, the Parliamentary Counsel Office publishes the rules under transitional provisions in the Act. The application of section 74(1)(aa) of the Act will mean that the publication requirements that apply to the rules made under section 40 of the CPENZA are those set out in Part 1 of the principal regulations. This means that the rules must be published on the maker’s website and notified in the Gazette.