What the official record says
This Act is the Regulatory Standards Act . This Act comes into force 6 months after the date on which it receives the Royal assent. The purpose of this Act is to improve the quality of Acts of Parliament and other kinds of legislation by— specifying principles of responsible regulation that are to apply to new legislation and, over time, to all legislation; and requiring those proposing new legislation to state whether the legislation is compatible with those principles and, if not, the reasons for the incompatibility; and granting courts the power to declare legislation to be incompatible with those principles. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— has the meaning set out in means a regulation, rule, Order in Council, bylaw, proclamation, notice, warrant, determination, aut