Whilst the Portfolio Committee finalised and processed the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Bill, the tagging of the Bill as a Section 75 Bill posed a few procedural concerns to the Portfolio Committee. The Parliamentary Legal Advisers tagged the Bill as a Section 75 Bill, but the Portfolio Committee disagreed and argued that the Bill should be tagged as a Section 76 Bill. The argument used by the Portfolio Committee is that the original NEM:PA Act was passed as a Section 76 Bill, and it was considered incongruous for an Amendment Bill to be classified as a Section 75 Bill, contrary to the Act which it relates to having been tagged and passed as a Section 75 Bill. The Bill was recommitted to the Portfolio Committee. The Joint Tagging Mechanism made a ruling on the matter and retained the tagging of the Bill as a Section 75 Bill.