The first reading of this bill happened four years ago—actually, four years ago tomorrow—and while it made important changes to our national record of New Zealand's births, deaths and marriages register, none of the provisions were deemed to be controversial and were accepted as sensible and necessary changes. For those people outside of this environment, this bill was probably seen to be a bit bland, but when it came back from select committee in August 2018, all hints of blandness had gone. In fact, it would be fair to say that it was a little bit more interesting than it was before it went to select committee. 