Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Vote: Bills — Illegal Contracts (Unlawful Limitation on Regulators’ Powers) Amendment Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Illegal Contracts (Unlawful Limitation on Regulators’ Powers) Amendment Bill be now read a first time.
Moved by
Lianne Dalziel
(New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Christchurch East)
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL (Labour—Christchurch East): I am very disappointed that the National Government has adopted a position in opposition to a bill, the Illegal Contracts (Unlawful Limitation on Regulators’ Powers) Amendment Bill, because its members had been... Read more →
🛑 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
(60 Ayes – 61 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 | 0 | 1 |
| Green Party | 14 | 0 |
| Mana | 1 | 0 |
| Māori Party | 3 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 8 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 34 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 59 |
| United Future | 0 | 1 |