Victorian Permissions Framework

The Permissions Framework helps policy makers and regulators design, review and improve licences, registrations and other permissions.

Details

Topic: Regulatory reform

Audiences: State government - regulatory operations, State government - regulatory policy

Regulatory functions: Permissions, Practice and processes

Industry: All relevant industries

Document types: Framework, Guide, Template

Author: Department of Treasury and Finance

Date published: 1 December 2023

The Victorian Permissions Framework is a suite of guides and templates that helps policy makers and regulators design, review and improve licences, registrations and other permissions. It supports the Victorian Guide to Regulation.

The framework includes:

an example to help you apply the 6-step process
2 guides with step-by-step approaches to work through.

How this tool can help

The Victorian Permissions Framework can help:

policy teams assess whether a permission is the right regulatory approach
regulator licensing teams save time and effort for themselves and businesses in administering a permission.

The health and transport sectors have successfully used this approach to design new permissions.