23 Bills sponso red b y departments other than the  Ministry of Justice are vetted by the B ill of Rights team in that M inistry. Bills sp onso red b y the M inistry are vetted by the Bill of Rights team in the Crown Law Office.  The  M inistry  will,  in  carrying  out  Bill  of  Rights  vetting,  consult  Crown  Co unsel.  The  Solicitor- General and Crown C ounsel represent the Government in most litigation before the courts. To the extent that Bill of Rights issues arise in litigation against the Government (which is where most of them do), it is the Solicitor-General and C rown  Counsel who will appea r and argue  those issues. That makes them well placed to advise the Government on Bill of Rights issues in relation to proposed legislation. 13 the Bill of Rights. Perhaps the not unfamiliar answer from academics and judges will be to blame the drafters of the statute. 20 Putting that frustration  aside,  a statement of the approach to analysis of Bill of Rights issues in New Zealand is necessary because of the significance it has for the content  of  legislation.  Under  section  7  of  the  Bill  of  Rights  Act,  the  Attorney- General must bring to the attention of Parliament any provision of a Government Bill or of any other Bill that appears to be inconsistent with any of the rights and freedoms in the Bill of Rights. The requirement is interpreted as requiring a report on inconsistency only if a prima facie breach cannot be justified under section 5 of the Act as a reasonable limit in a free and democratic society. 21 All Government Bills undergo “vetting” . The vetting process involves scrutiny of policy proposals as they emerge and of draft legislation as it is developed by teams of specialist lawyers within 2 government agencies.²³ They provide the advice to the Attorney-General  in relation to section 7 reports. The robustness of the process has been enhanced by the relatively recent decision of the Attorney-General to make publicly available Bill of Rights advice irrespective of whether a section 7 report is tabled in Parliament. Before this open-minded initiative, in the absence of a section 7 report, neither Parliament, including its select committees, nor anyone else could know why a Bill was considered not to be inconsistent with the Bill of Rights. The release of advice means that if a Bill of Rights issue is raised in the course of a Bill’s passage through Parliament, the House, select committees, and  the public will have a better appreciation of the Government’s thinking a bout the issues and be better