Wednesday, 5 May 2004
Vote: Bills — Local Government (Rating Cap) Amendment Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Local Government (Rating Cap) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Moved by
Rodney Hide
(ACT New Zealand — List Member)
RODNEY HIDE (ACT): That was Mrs Jill Pettis, the senior Government whip, giving Parliament a 10-minute lecture on consulting the community—that from a Government that manages to unite Māori and have them march from all over Aotearoa!... Read more →
📋 We've linked this vote to our
“Capping local government rate increases”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
for Capping local government rate increases.
🛑 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.
✕ Failed by a narrow margin
(49 Ayes – 71 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 | 8 | 0 |
| Green Party | 0 | 9 |
| New Zealand First | 13 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 52 |
| New Zealand National | 27 | 0 |
| Progressive | 0 | 2 |
| United Future | 0 | 8 |