The regulatory mapping of Kelantan state government / Nor Raihana Asmar Mohd Noor ...[et al.]

Nowadays, most of the governments in the world
facing a challenging task of reviewing and updating laws and
regulations that have been established for centuries. Most of
these rules are outdated, obsolete, and sometimes overlapping
and duplicative. The aim of this study is to reduce the number
of unnecessary regulations and requirements. It is also to make
the regulations are simpler, transparent and focuses on the
legitimate regulatory process. To obtain a holistic view about
this matter some personal interviews have been conducted
against the respondents who are involved and responsible for
the law enforcement. In fact some questionnaires had been
distributed in order to collect primary and secondary data.
This paper involved two (2) main phases: (i) gathering data
and information regarding the existing regulations (ii)
identifying any outdated, overlapped and duplicated
regulations and need to be reviewed for improvement. 12 legal
officers of all local authorities were interviewed, and face to
face questionnaire surveys were distributed to state agencies
officers to gain feedback on the existing regulations of
Kelantan State Government. The findings indicate that there
were existing regulations that have amended and repealed,
however, there is a problem of inconsistent regulations,
overlapped regulations and gazette but not implemented. This
study benefits to the state government by producing a
systematic regulatory mapping known as catalogue that can
solve the problems of reviewing and updating existing
regulations. These processes are important to make sure all the
regulations are updated according to current changes. This
study is regarded as the first attempt to investigate the existing
regulations of Kelantan State Government