Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Vote: Bills — Resource Management (Duration of Consents) Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Resource Management (Duration of Consents) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
RYAN HAMILTON (National—Hamilton East): Thank you, Mr Speaker. Look, I won’t take too long. We were criticised for being rushed with this process and taking two years to build the RMA. In that process, we’ve created this hybrid bill to, I guess, grandfather...
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 – 55 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 | 15 |
| New Zealand First | 8 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 34 |
| New Zealand National | 49 | 0 |