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# 12,000 sign on to urgent Treaty claim over Seymour’s regulatory bill
- URL: https://goodoil.news/12-000-sign-on-to-urgent-treaty-claim-over-seymours-regulatory-bill/
- Published: 2025-05-07T08:24:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-07T23:21:47.000Z
- Description: “Just another publicity stunt..."
- Author: Centrist
- Tags: News

Summarised by [Centrist](https://www.centrist.nz/?ref=goodoil.news)

**The Waitangi Tribunal has granted urgency to a claim brought by Te Pāti Māori linked group Toitū te Tiriti against the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill, with over 12,000 people signed on as claimants.** 

**The Tribunal will hear the matter on 6 June, ahead of the bill’s expected introduction to Parliament by the end of the month.**

The claim alleges the bill would breach the Treaty of Waitangi by enabling the Minister for Regulation – currently David Seymour – to review and influence legislation without reference to Te Tiriti principles. 

The preliminary Treaty Impact Analysis for the bill explicitly noted it does not include any Treaty-based criteria in its definition of “good law-making.”

Te Pāti Māori vice president and Toitū te Tiriti spokesperson Eru Kapa-Kingi said the bill could result in “significant prejudice” to Māori and likened the claim to a “Māori class action.” 

Seymour dismissed the claim as a stunt, saying the bill only requires officials to justify restrictions on citizens’ rights, property, and freedoms. “If they’ve got a problem with that, I’ll be interested to hear it,” he said, but called the move “just another publicity stunt from a Māori Party protest group.”

[**Read more over at RNZ**](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/559647/regulatory-standards-bill-claim-accepted-for-urgency-by-waitangi-tribunal-with-12-000-claimants-signed-on?ref=goodoil.news)

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