Some submitters made suggestions for improvements to the bill, and a few raised concerns with particular clauses in the bill—and I will cover some of those off now. Two issues raised in submissions relate to the bill as a whole, which the committee carefully considered. The first is whether the bill should be amended to clarify that the Bill of Rights Act—or the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act, as it is properly known—applies to the exercise of powers in the bill. It isn't necessary, of course, for an Act to include a clause for the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act to apply, because, on the face of that piece of legislation, it already does. The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act applies to the powers in this bill, in accordance with the relevant sections of that Act, and accordingly the committee did not recommend that there should be an explicit clause stating that the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act applies. 