Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Vote: Bills — Goods and Services Tax (Exemption of Healthy Food) Amendment Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Goods and Services Tax (Exemption of Healthy Food) Amendment Bill be now read a first time.
Moved by
Rahui Katene
(Māori Party — Member for Te Tai Tonga)
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON (National—Hunua): I, too, congratulate Rahui Katene on her good intentions in encouraging healthy eating through the Goods and Services Tax (Exemption of Health Food) Amendment Bill, but this bill is riddled with flaws. That is no... Read more →
📋 We've linked this vote to our
“Removing/exempting GST from food”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
for Removing/exempting GST from food.
🛑 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
(56 Ayes – 64 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ACT New Zealand | 0 | 5 |
| Green Party | 9 | 0 |
| Māori Party | 4 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 42 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 58 |
| Progressive | 1 | 0 |
| United Future | 0 | 1 |