Thursday, 4 April 2019
Vote: Bills — Commerce (Criminalisation of Cartels) Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That Commerce (Criminalisation of Cartels) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Hon Andrew Little
(New Zealand Labour Party — List Member)
GREG O’CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): This is a bill that really stands New Zealand apart as a very fair country. I think those of us who’ve watched different regimes around the world—we start, I suppose, with communism—I think we all agree there was no... Read more →
Third Reading — this is the last vote a bill needs to
pass before it's sent off to become law. Earlier votes (first reading, second reading, and
any votes on amendments along the way) decide what the bill looks like and whether it
keeps moving forward, but this is the one that actually decides whether it happens at all.
✓ Passed by a narrow margin
(63 Ayes – 55 Noes – 2 Absent)
Hansard didn't name individual MPs for this vote, only how each party voted overall, so
there's no per-member breakdown to show here.
🏛️ Party breakdown
| Party | Aye | No |
|---|---|---|
| ACT New Zealand | 0 | 1 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 8 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 9 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 46 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 53 |