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Wednesday, 8 September 2004
Vote: Bills — Shop Trading Hours (Easter Trading Local Exemption) Bill — First Reading

🗳️ That the Shop Trading Hours (Easter Trading Local Exemption) Bill be now read a first time

Moved by Peter Brown

The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Clem Simich): I agree with that. But for the Green Party’s “No” vote, the motion would have been agreed to and that would have been the end of the matter. We can be grateful in many ways for the “No” vote. Does any member call for... Read more →

HansardID: a8dfaf47-25d8-4e1e-b53d-575aecc6967f
🛑 Bill failed here — this reading vote failed, and a bill can't proceed past a failed reading. So even though this isn't the third reading, it's the last we saw of this bill: it doesn't get another vote after this one.
🙋 Personal (conscience) vote — MPs voted as individuals rather than following their party's position. These are typically called on moral or ethical questions (e.g. euthanasia, abortion, alcohol law, marriage law), where by convention parties don't whip their members into a single position.
✕ Failed by a narrow margin (56 Ayes – 61 Noes – 3 Absent)

✓ Ayes (56)

New Zealand National Party (19)
New Zealand Labour Party (14)
New Zealand First Party (12)
ACT New Zealand (8)
United Future New Zealand (2)
Independent (1)

✕ Noes (60)

New Zealand Labour Party (35)
Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand (8)
New Zealand National Party (8)
United Future New Zealand (6)
Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition (2)
Māori Party (1)