In March 2006, the Metropolitan Police confirmed that, following complaints by the Scottish National Party and others, they were investigating possible breaches of the Act.
The Government's preferred option would be to introduce a prohibition system, under which the Director General of Fair Trading would investigate alleged breaches.
In investigating alleged breaches of chapter II a two stage process is involved.
The report recommends that the Victorian Electoral Commission investigate possible breaches of the Electoral Act.
The Council has no power to investigate alleged breaches of minority rights.
This established the Waitangi Tribunal, which was given the task to investigating contemporary breaches of the Treaty.
However since it was not able to investigate historical breaches, was underfunded, and generally unsympathetic to claimants, most Māori were disappointed by the Tribunal.
Gap promised to investigate breaches in its ethical policy.
The Tribunal was empowered to investigate possible breaches of the Treaty by the New Zealand government or any state-controlled body, occurring after 1975.
It was abolished in 2010, on the basis that government would investigate breaches of security as and when they occurred.