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Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Vote: Bills — Gambling (Gambling Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill — Third Reading

🗳️ That the Gambling (Gambling Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill be now read a third time

The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Members, this debate has concluded. Just to explain the procedure, I understand that there are members who wish to have a personal vote on this matter. I will be putting the question in the normal manner. Once I have...

HansardID: 9a2760eb-fd3e-444b-b135-a0c2aecf361a
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 (63 Ayes – 55 Noes – 3 Absent)

✓ Ayes (63)

New Zealand National Party (59)
Māori Party (3)
ACT New Zealand (1)

✕ Noes (54)

New Zealand Labour Party (30)
Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand (14)
New Zealand First Party (7)
Independent (1)
MANA (1)
United Future New Zealand (1)