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Wednesday, 30 July 2003
Vote: Bills — Death with Dignity Bill — First Reading

🗳️ That the Death with Dignity Bill be now read a first time

PETER BROWN (Deputy Leader—NZ First): I would like to start my reply by addressing a few of the queries. With regard to the query raised by Gordon Copeland about the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act, I have to say that the Ministry of Justice advised the...

HansardID: 71a201e2-d9c0-4e28-b3ce-ac8ca66604e9
🛑 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 (58 Ayes – 60 Noes – 2 Absent)

✓ Ayes (56)

New Zealand Labour Party (25)
New Zealand First Party (9)
ACT New Zealand (7)
Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand (7)
New Zealand National Party (6)
Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition (1)
United Future New Zealand (1)

✕ Noes (60)

New Zealand Labour Party (26)
New Zealand National Party (20)
United Future New Zealand (7)
New Zealand First Party (3)
ACT New Zealand (2)
Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand (1)
Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition (1)