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Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Vote: Bills — Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal (Waitaki Easter Trading) Amendment Bill — First Reading

🗳️ That the Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal (Waitaki Easter Trading) Amendment Bill be now read a first time

The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Members—[Interruption] Order! This is the process we are going to follow. I am going to put the question. I am going to announce the result. At that stage, any member can ask for a personal vote. I know there are...

HansardID: e938d693-e507-411c-9b39-f3f5ac1fe0c2
🛑 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.
🙋 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.
✕ Failed by a narrow margin (49 Ayes – 70 Noes – 2 Absent)

✓ Ayes (49)

New Zealand National Party (46)
Māori Party (2)
United Future New Zealand (1)

✕ Noes (68)

New Zealand Labour Party (32)
Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand (14)
New Zealand National Party (13)
New Zealand First Party (8)
Māori Party (1)