Wednesday, 14 June 2006
Vote: Bills — Resource Management (Security for Costs) Amendment Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Resource Management (Security for Costs) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Moved by
Kate Wilkinson
(New Zealand National Party — List Member)
KATE WILKINSON (National): I came to Parliament believing in justice—justice for everybody—and not in denying justice to anyone, as the opponents to this bill are suggesting. Justice in any court requires the reduction of vexatious and... Read more →
🛑 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
(48 Ayes – 71 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Green Party | 0 | 6 |
| Māori Party | 0 | 4 |
| New Zealand First | 0 | 7 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 50 |
| New Zealand National | 48 | 0 |
| Progressive | 0 | 1 |
| United Future | 0 | 3 |