Wednesday, 23 August 2006
Vote: Bills — Local Government (Rating Cap) Amendment Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Local Government (Rating Cap) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
RODNEY HIDE (Leader—ACT): May I thank the Māori Party members for their support for the bill and indeed for their analysis, and for the realisation that Māori were the first people in New Zealand to feel the effect of outrageous rates forcing... 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
(57 Ayes – 64 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 | 2 | 0 |
| Green Party | 0 | 6 |
| Māori Party | 4 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 0 | 7 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 50 |
| New Zealand National | 48 | 0 |
| Progressive | 0 | 1 |
| United Future | 3 | 0 |