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Tuesday, 28 June 2016
Vote: Bills — Shop Trading Hours Amendment Bill — Second Reading

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

ALFRED NGARO (National): I rise to take a call on the Shop Trading Hours Amendment Bill. I want to acknowledge the previous speaker, David Cunliffe, the son of an Anglican minister, and surely that was an evangelical, hermeneutical, preaching...

HansardID: c798a233-9931-4e9f-86fb-2d0c799fa06e
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✓ 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)