This contract covers specialised legislative drafting and related services to participating agencies.
This contract covers following services:
This service includes drafting or reviewing draft legislation in accordance with PCO’s standards for high-quality legislation, assisting in developing standard provisions, and working for PCO’s Pacific desk (providing legislative assistance to Pacific nations).
This service includes drafting or reviewing draft legislation in accordance with PCO’s standards for high-quality legislation and/or standards specified by the participating agency.
This service includes advice on the development of legislation (including design and process), the preparation or review of drafting instructions, advice and comment on draft legislation, and services relating to developing, making, and publishing legislation.
This service includes the promotion of high-quality legislation that is easy to find, use, and understand. For example, delivering training for, and assistance to, drafters, projects to improve accessibility of legislation on agency websites, and projects relating to delivery of dual language legislation.
Certain areas of legal work, not related to legislation services, are not within scope of this panel. This includes litigation, mediation, and arbitration work. Any service that does not align under 1A, 1B, 2A or 2B above, is out of scope.
The legislation services panel is open to any agency that drafts legislation, administers primary or secondary legislation, or instructs the Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO).
To join the panel as a participating agency, you should:
To procure services, you must issue a Legal and Related Services Order (LRSO) in accordance with the terms of the Services Agreement between PCO and that panel supplier. You can obtain a copy of the LRSO by emailing the lead agency (Attention: Legislation Services Panel).
The key objective of this contract is to support agencies with legislative drafting and developing of secondary legislation and related support services.
The contract will also help build capability of legislation services and increase access for suppliers to legal, policy and legislative design work across government.
There are 18 suppliers on this panel, but three chose to remain un-named. You can select any of the 18 suppliers who best meet your requirements. For a full list of suppliers, email the PCO agency contact, attention: Legislation Services Panel.
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Email the lead agency in the first instance with any queries related to joining this contract.