Bertram, Geoff2020-07-202022-07-122020-07-202022-07-1220202020https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/21081As New Zealand’s experiment with deregulation limps unsteadily into its fourth decade, documented cases of regulatory failure accumulate. A common theme running through these failures is that the weakening of regulatory legal requirements in the 1980s and 1990s, under the rubric “light-handed regulation”, was accompanied by a hollowing-out of the public sector’s regulatory capability. That was never a necessary combination.pdfen-NZCommerce Act 1986Commercial lawNew ZealandregulationTexthttps://www.wgtn.ac.nz/igps/publications