🧪 EXPERIMENTAL / ALPHA — this is an independent prototype, not an official record. Data may be incomplete or wrong - always check the linked Hansard source before relying on it.
Hot Air

Thursday, 25 August 2016
Vote: Bills — Shop Trading Hours Amendment Bill — Third Reading

🗳️ That the Shop Trading Hours Amendment Bill be now read a third time

The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): You were free to discuss the petition during the course of the speech that you made, and you did so. The petition has been declined in question time, and that is the end of the matter.

HansardID: b7832254-e73b-4da5-84fa-697f938b02b0
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 (62 Ayes – 59 Noes)

✓ Ayes (62)

New Zealand National Party (59)
ACT New Zealand (1)
Māori Party (1)
United Future New Zealand (1)

✕ Noes (58)

New Zealand Labour Party (32)
Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand (14)
New Zealand First Party (11)
Māori Party (1)