National members participated at select committee in consideration of this bill, having supported it during the first reading debate in the House. Support was based on three key factors. The first was that consistency, that this is needed between the court system and the rest of New Zealand society in relation to COVID-19 restrictions—for example, regarding vaccination status, when the Government had passed legislation establishing what is commonly referred to as the traffic light framework in late 2021, it became clear that such a regime would not apply to the court system. 