Wednesday, 1 June 2005
Vote: Bills — Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims Bill be now read a third time.
Moved by
Rick Barker
(New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Tukituki)
DARREN HUGHES (Labour—Otaki): There is nothing like law and order legislation for bringing out the worst in some Opposition members of Parliament. Over the last day and a half we have seen it, in a mixture of total exaggeration, melodramatic... Read more →
📋 We've linked this vote to our
“Restricting prisoner compensation payouts (redirect to victims)”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
for Restricting prisoner compensation payouts (redirect to victims).
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
(62 Ayes – 56 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 | 8 |
| Green Party | 9 | 0 |
| Māori Party | 0 | 1 |
| New Zealand First | 0 | 13 |
| New Zealand Labour | 51 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 26 |
| Progressive | 2 | 0 |
| United Future | 0 | 8 |