The committee did recommend a number of minor amendments to improve the bill, including clarifying the purpose clause to reflect that the bill has been designed to ensure consistency with international human rights law. The committee also recommended adding examples to illustrate the types of offences that are within the scope of the bill, and to reinforce that the bill does not create any new substantive offences or expand the jurisdiction of any existing offences. The committee also recommended a number of useful technical improvements to the bill, which relate to terminology—clarifying the limited situations where consent of the flag state is not required to exercise the powers of the bill—and ensuring the powers in the bill are exercisable in respect of persons charged with a serious offence against New Zealand law who then abscond into international waters.