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Wednesday, 8 November 2006
Vote: Bills — Sale of Liquor (Youth Alcohol Harm Reduction:Purchase Age) Amendment Bill — Second Reading

🗳️ That the Sale of Liquor (Youth Alcohol Harm Reduction: Purchase Age) Amendment Bill be now read a second time

STEVE CHADWICK (Labour—Rotorua): This will be just a very quick call, because I certainly agree with the sentiments being expressed in the House tonight. This is a vexed question and here we are, all concerned, anxious, and worried. We are a bit like...

HansardID: c5c5ea9f-0cce-4ce1-9a05-08c9fec45fb8
🛑 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 (49 Ayes – 72 Noes)

✓ Ayes (49)

New Zealand National Party (20)
New Zealand Labour Party (14)
New Zealand First Party (7)
Māori Party (4)
United Future New Zealand (2)
Independent (1)
Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition (1)

✕ Noes (71)

New Zealand Labour Party (35)
New Zealand National Party (28)
Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand (5)
ACT New Zealand (2)
United Future New Zealand (1)