Tuesday, 5 March 2024
Vote: Bills — Business Payment Practices Act Repeal Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Business Payment Practices Act Repeal Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Andrew Bayly
(New Zealand National Party — Member for Port Waikato)
DAVID MacLEOD (National—New Plymouth): Mr Speaker, thank you very much. I thank the member the Hon Damien O’Connor for bringing up a part of my career, as a director of Fonterra. Indeed, he is correct that that organisation did bring in what I consider... 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
(68 Ayes – 54 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 | 11 | 0 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 0 | 14 |
| New Zealand First | 8 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 34 |
| New Zealand National | 49 | 0 |
| Te Pāti Māori | 0 | 6 |