The Beehive building

Accelerating Accessibility in New Zealand

29 October 2021.

This Cabinet paper seeks agreement to introduce a new framework that takes a progressive approach to identifying, preventing, and removing barriers to participation for disabled people, tāngata whaikaha Māori and others with accessibility needs.

The Regulatory Impact Statement accompanies the Cabinet paper which provided an analysis as to what options were considered to address the issue of accessibility.

The cabinet paper and Regulatory Impact Statement are available in multiple formats.

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