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Wednesday, 16 May 2007
Vote: Bills — Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal (Easter Trading) Amendment Bill — Second Reading

🗳️ That the Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal (Easter Trading) Amendment Bill be now read a second time

DARIEN FENTON (Labour): Thank you, Mr Speaker— Hon Tau Henare: Here we go—comedy hour. DARIEN FENTON: Here we go? OK—well, especially after that last speech! I will be voting against the Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal (Easter Trading)...

HansardID: 4864d0f0-7a6b-411d-b90d-4f76e3c9abb7
🛑 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 (57 Ayes – 64 Noes)

✓ Ayes (57)

New Zealand National Party (33)
New Zealand Labour Party (13)
New Zealand First Party (7)
ACT New Zealand (2)
Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition (1)
United Future New Zealand (1)

✕ Noes (63)

New Zealand Labour Party (36)
New Zealand National Party (15)
Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand (5)
Māori Party (4)
United Future New Zealand (2)
Independent (1)