Introducing our popular Obligations Register service designed to identify and understand the New Zealand legislative and regulatory obligations relevant to your business.
Our expert lawyers translate your business' legal obligations into clear, plain English summaries, making them easily accessible to your team online. With our support, your business can effortlessly grasp and fulfil its responsibilities, ensuring compliance and allowing your team to focus on the tasks that matter most to you.
- Identifying relevant laws: Our team collaborates closely with yours to identify and understand the New Zealand legislative and regulatory obligations of relevance.
- Summarising relevant obligations: Our team reviews all legislation and regulations on an agreed list to identify and summarise applicable legal obligations.
- Keeping the Obligations Register up-to-date: Our team monitors material legislative and regulatory developments.
Service benefits
- Customisable and interoperable format: Obligations can be customised, personalised, and exported to your preferred compliance software, or managed directly within the software platform.
- Dedicated expert team: Our central Obligations Register team is your main contact point. We engage expert lawyers from across our firm to identify and summarise your core obligations in their specialist areas.
- Constant monitoring and regular updating: Using a combination of smart automation and human checks.
- Timely and curated alerts: Identifying legislative and regulatory changes impacting your obligations register.
Ongoing updates
Our central Obligations Register team has a three pronged system to ensure your team stays up to date.
- Monitor law changes: Utilising smart automation, backed up by human checks, our central Obligations Register team monitors law changes of relevance to all client registers.
- Amend register: We update, add and remove obligations from your register to align with these law changes.
- Assess relevance: Our expert lawyers then identify the legislative and regulatory developments impacting your register.
We then send you monthly alerts identifying changes to your register.
Adding new laws to your register
- Weekly checks for law changes: Our central Obligations Register team meets weekly to assess what new and proposed laws may be relevant to your business.
- Identifying changes of relevance: When there is a new or proposed law we think is relevant to your business, we contact you to see if you want it added to your Obligations Register (for a fee).
- Adding new laws to your register: With your approval, we add new laws to your Obligations Register.
Get in touch
Reach out to us to learn more about how the MinterEllisonRuddWatts' Obligations Register service can help your organisation stay compliant and thrive in today's ever changing regulatory landscape.
- Sarah Salmond leads the well-established team of specialised lawyers and regulatory experts behind our Obligations Register service. She routinely assists private sector clients with complex, sensitive, and often high-profile public law, regulatory and government relations matters.
- Alex de Luen is the technical lead for our Obligations Register service. His team manages our monitoring, updating and reporting functions, and ensures that client registers are accessible and operating seamlessly.
