Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Vote: Bills — Fuel Industry (Improving Fuel Resilience) Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Fuel Industry (Improving Fuel Resilience) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Hon Dr Megan Woods
(New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Wigram)
VANUSHI WALTERS (Labour—Upper Harbour): Thank you, Madam Speaker. We do live in a complex world at the moment, and my colleague, the Hon Scott Simpson, has spoken very well to that. We’ve seen the war in Ukraine. We’ve seen COVID. We’ve seen the fact that... 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 large majority
(107 Ayes – 10 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 | 10 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 9 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 62 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 32 | 0 |
| Te Paati Māori | 2 | 0 |