What we've done in this is replace a fairly standard definition of "disability" with the definition in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This is significant. New Zealand ratified the convention in September 2008 without reservation. This bill thus takes us further down the path of fulfilling our obligations under that convention. It fulfils some of our obligations under article 4 to take into account, protect, and promote the human rights of people with disabilities in all policies and programmes. It also furthers our obligation to recognise, in article 3, the dignity, autonomy, participation, and inclusion of people living with disabilities, and, in articles 19 and 20, to regard living independently and personal mobility as objectives. 