Wednesday, 16 March 2005
Vote: Bills — Sentencing (Community Sentencing to Fit the Crime) Amendment Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Sentencing (Community Sentencing to Fit the Crime) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Dr MURIEL NEWMAN (Deputy Leader—ACT): I would like to start by reminding the House that if there is merit in a member’s bill there is a longstanding tradition that the bill will be referred to a select committee for further consideration. New Zealand now... Read more →
📋 We've linked this vote to our
“Judicial discretion in community sentencing”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
for Judicial discretion in community sentencing.
🛑 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
(57 Ayes – 63 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 | 9 | 0 |
| Green Party | 0 | 9 |
| Māori Party | 0 | 1 |
| New Zealand First | 13 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 51 |
| New Zealand National | 27 | 0 |
| Progressive | 0 | 2 |
| United Future | 8 | 0 |