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Wednesday, 25 June 2003
Vote: Bills — Prostitution Reform Bill — Third Reading

🗳️ That the Prostitution Reform Bill be now read a third time

LUAMANUVAO WINNIE LABAN (NZ Labour—Mana): Kia ora, talofa lava, and warm Pacific greetings. I stand to speak on the final reading of this bill. I have not spoken during the previous readings of the bill, because I wanted to hear all sides and to come to a...

HansardID: 12760ef6-a69b-4eac-8968-a813bc4e35c2
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.
🙋 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.
✓ Passed by a narrow margin (60 Ayes – 59 Noes – 1 Abstentions)

✓ Ayes (58)

New Zealand Labour Party (40)
Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand (8)
New Zealand National Party (6)
ACT New Zealand (4)

✕ Noes (58)

New Zealand National Party (20)
New Zealand First Party (13)
New Zealand Labour Party (11)
United Future New Zealand (8)
ACT New Zealand (5)
Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition (1)

🤷 Abstained (1)

Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition (1)