Thursday, 26 June 2003
Vote: Bills — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation,and Compensation Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Ruth Dyson
(New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Banks Peninsula)
GERRY BROWNLEE (NZ National—Ilam): No new tax! No rise in income tax! Just levies on nearly everything that has anything to do with a Government service in this country—levies imposed by Helen Clark and her Ministers on electricity, on petrol, on... Read more →
Third Reading — this is the last vote a bill needs to
pass before it's sent off to become law. Earlier votes (first reading, second reading, and
any votes on amendments along the way) decide what the bill looks like and whether it
keeps moving forward, but this is the one that actually decides whether it happens at all.
✓ Passed by a narrow margin
(61 Ayes – 50 Noes – 9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ACT New Zealand | 0 | 7 |
| Green Party | 9 | 0 |
| Labour | 52 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 0 | 13 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 22 |
| United Future | 0 | 8 |