vaccine dosages. Entrenching stay-at-home orders, permitting entry to specific premises, restricting the type of work carried out by infected workers, and the regulation of COVID-19 vaccine certificates. Requiring Persons Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU) to keep vaccination records, and preventing affected persons from working unless vaccinated. Empowering authorised enforcement persons to order individuals to produce evidence of compliance with a specified COVID-19 measures. Empowers PCBUs to assess that workers are vaccinated and undergo medical examination or testing for COVID-19. The Governor-General at the discretion of the Prime Minister can also prescribe an assessment tool to help PCBUs facilitate this process. Allows for the storage and disclosure of personal information on the condition that it is used for ascertaining that a person has been vaccinated, issued with a COVID-19 vaccination certificate, or is complying with the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act, a health order, and the Health Act 1956. Recognises the My Vaccine Pass and International Travel Vaccination Certificate as COVID-19 vaccination certificates. History and responses On 12 May 2020, Attorney General David Parker introduced the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act to provide the legal framework for the Government's efforts to combat COVID-19 and to replace the country's state of emergency. The bill passed its first two readings on 12 May and passed its third reading on 13 May by a margin of 63 to 57 votes. The COVID-19 Public Health Response Act was supported by the Labour-led coalition government (including the allied New Zealand First and Green parties) but was opposed by the opposition National Party. National Member of Parliament Gerry Brownlee claimed that the bill placed too much power in the hands of the Prime Minister without clarifying what advice she needed to make decisions. The ACT party's sole Member of Parliament David Seymour voted in favour of the bill during its first two readings but opposed it during its third reading because he believed that it did not "balance the rights, freedoms and overall welfare of New Zealanders with the Government's effort to control COVID-19." The COVID-19 Public Health Response Act was criticised by Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt, who described the lack of scrutiny and rushed process as "a great failure of our democratic process". Hunt also criticised the lack of provision within the legislation to ensure that those making decisions and implementing the new law would abide by national and international human rights as