The purpose of this bill and the original bill was to standardise this so that the local representatives from all local authorities are subjected to the same scrutiny, but I have to say that Parliament's Governance and Administration Committee has gone one step further in flagging that this would exclude those elected to local or community boards. This is, again, important because these local or community boards do make significant decisions at that grassroots level. So it is important that they have the same scrutiny as members of Parliament and the other local authorities, councillors, and mayors. 