Kingdom  owes  a  significant  debt  to  the  New  Zealand  Bill  of  Rights  Act  1990.   The influence of the New Zealand model has been acknowledged by Lord Lester, the principal proponent of the measure.²⁹  It has been influential elsewhere as well in the proposed Victoria Charter of Rights and the Human Rights Act 2004 in the Australian Capital Territories.   34 In  some  respects  the  Courts  in  the  United  Kingdom  have  been  bolder  in interpreting their Act than their New Zealand counterparts have been in dealing with ours.³⁰ And the Act itself goes further than the New Zealand Act in some important  detailed  respects,  particularly  concerning  treaties  and  declarations. Looking at the British experience it would be possible in New Zealand to engage in  some  modest  tweaking  so  as  to  give  express  power  to  make  declarations  of inconsistency  and  perhaps  providing  the  power  to  examine  the  nature  of  the international obligations New Zealand has assumed, and the consistency of New Zealand’s domestic law with those obligations.   35 Another  option  would  be  to  give  power  to  the  courts  to  invalidate  subordinate legislation  on  Bills  of  Rights  grounds,  as  they  can  do  on  ultra  vires  grounds.   Another  beneficent  tweaking  would  be  to  ensure  that  reports  are  made  to Parliament   on   amendments   to   bills   made   by   Select   Committees   or   by supplementary order papers in terms of their consistency with the Bill of Rights. Procedurally this will not be easy to achieve but it would be a worthwhile reform. Yet another tweaking option includes the protection of property rights by the Bill of  Rights.  I  took  a  deliberate  decision  to  exclude  this  in  the  1980s  but  on reflection  I  believe  it  should  be  included.³¹    There  may,  however,  be  other candidates for inclusion although I have not examined their merits.   36 The sixth policy option and the one most likely to be followed in the immediate future is to leave things as they are.  As pointed out earlier there is a great deal more to be achieved through the existing Bill of Rights in areas of the law other                                                 29   Anthony  Lester QC “Parliamentary  Scrutiny of  Legislation under  the Human  Rights Act 1998” (2002) 33 VUWLR 1. 30   A v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2005] 2 AC 68.   31   Geoffrey Palmer “Westco Lagan v A-G” [2001] NZLJ 163. 13