Marriage (Gender Clarification) Amendment Bill

The purpose of this Bill is to clarify that parties to a marriage must be one man and one woman.

Bill Events

Event	Date		Ayes	Noes	Abstentions
First Reading	7 Dec 2005	Motion not agreed: That the Marriage (Gender Clarification) Amendment Bill be now read a first time.	Ayes 47 National 36 (Ardern, Auchinvole, Bennett D, Bennett P, Blue, Borrows, Brash, Brownlee, Carter D, Carter J, Clarkson, Coleman, Collins, Dean, English, Foss, Goodhew, Goudie, Guy, Hayes, Heatley, Hutchison, KingC, Mapp, McCully, Peachey, Roy E, Ryall, Smith L, Smith N, Tisch, Tolley, Tremain, Wagner, Wilkinson, Worth) NZ First 5 (Brown, Paraone, Peters, Stewart, Woolerton) United F. 3 ACT 2 Labour 1 (Field)	Noes 73 Labour 49 (Barker, Barnett, Benson-Pope, Beyer, Burton, Carter C, Chadwick, Choudhary, Clark, Cosgrove, Cullen, Cunliffe, Dalziel, Duynhoven, Dyson, Fairbrother, Fenton, Gallagher, Goff, Gosche, Hartley, Hawkins, Hereora, Hobbs, Hodgson, Horomia, Hughes, Jones, King A, Laban, Mackey, Maharey, Mahuta, Mallard, Moroney, O’Connor, Okeroa, Parker, Pettis, Pillay, Ririnui, Robertson, Samuels, Street, Sutton, Swain, Tizard, Wilson, Yates) National 12 (Blumsky, Connell, Finlayson, Groser, Henare, Key, Power, Rich, Simich, te Heuheu, Williamson, Wong) Green 6 Maori 3 NZ First 2 (Donnelly, Mark) Progres. 1	-
Introduction	4 May 2005