Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Vote: Bills — Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Hon Nathan Guy
(New Zealand National Party — Member for Ōtaki)
IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY (Labour—Palmerston North): I intend to take just a very short call on the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill. All night we have been asking why the Government has been so quiet on this bill, and why the... Read more →
📋 We've linked this vote to our
“Restricting prisoner compensation payouts (redirect to victims)”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
for Restricting prisoner compensation payouts (redirect to victims).
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 large majority
(108 Ayes – 14 Noes)
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 | 5 | 0 |
| Green Party | 0 | 9 |
| Māori Party | 0 | 5 |
| New Zealand Labour | 43 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 58 | 0 |
| Progressive | 1 | 0 |
| United Future | 1 | 0 |