Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Vote: Bills — Fair Pay Agreements Act Repeal Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Fair Pay Agreements Act Repeal Bill be now read a third time 🗑️ Repeal
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📋 We've linked this vote to our
“Fair Pay Agreements (sectoral bargaining)”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
against Fair Pay Agreements (sectoral bargaining).
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
(67 Ayes – 54 Noes – 1 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 | 11 | 0 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 0 | 14 |
| New Zealand First | 8 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 34 |
| New Zealand National | 48 | 0 |
| Te Pāti Māori | 0 | 6 |