Judicature Amendment Bill (No 3)

This Bill is designed to alleviate the workload pressures facing the Court of Appeal and to increase access to the final appellate court in New Zealand. The Bill aims to achieve this by increasing judicial resources, ensuring more efficient use of judicial resources and removing a residual barrier to accessing the Supreme Court.

Bill Events

Event	Date		Ayes	Noes	Abstentions
Royal Assent	9 Apr 2006
Third Reading	5 Apr 2006	Bill read a third time.	Ayes 115 Labour 50 National 48 NZ First 7 Green 6 United F. 3 Progres. 1	Noes 3 Maori 3	-
Instruction to Committee	28 Mar 2006
In Committee	28 Mar 2006, 4 Apr 2006 (resumed)	Amendment to the amendment agreed to. The question was put that the amendment set out on Supplementary Order Paper 21 in the name of the Hon Rick Barker to insert new clause 2 as amended be agreed to. New clause 2 as amended agreed to. Bill to be reported with amendment presently.
Second Reading	14 Mar 2006
SC Reports	24 Feb 2006	The Government Administration Committee reported on this bill.
Submissions Due	22 Jul 2005
First Reading	21 Jun 2005		n/a *	n/a *	n/a *
Introduction	10 May 2005

* We don't have voting data from before Nov 2005 in our database at present.