The income to date has been insufficient to cover the costs of providing the rail function and the rail function is in deficit. In late 2018, we sought input from rail participants into how we could resolve the funding constraint.
Rail safety regulator funding review consultation
If you would like to understand the range of views we were provided on the proposal, and our response to common themes of support or concern on the proposal, see the summary of submissions.
The decision to change the fees and charges was made by Cabinet. You can see the proposal made to Cabinet and the regulatory impact statements using the links below.
Transport Cabinet papers(external link):
Regulatory Impact Assessments (RIA)(external link):
