Tuesday, 9 August 2022
Vote: Bills — Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Hon Kiritapu Allan
(New Zealand Labour Party — Member for East Coast)
CAMILLA BELICH (Labour): Thank you, Mr Speaker. One of the key functions of the judiciary is discretion in sentencing. The repeal of this law—the three-strikes law—will put the discretion back where it should be: with the judiciary. This is... Read more →
📋 We've linked this vote to our
“Three strikes mandatory sentencing”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
against Three strikes mandatory sentencing.
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 clear majority
(77 Ayes – 43 Noes)
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 | 10 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 10 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 65 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 33 |
| Te Paati Māori | 2 | 0 |