Minister of Consumer Affairs (New Zealand)

The Minister of Consumer Affairs was a minister in the government of New Zealand with the responsibilities including corporate law and governance, financial markets, competition policy, consumer policy, protecting intellectual property, and trade policy and international regulatory cooperation, most of which is now administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. The position was established in 1984 and was absorbed into the office of Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs after the 2014 general election.

List of ministers

The following ministers held the office of Minister of Consumer Affairs.[1]

Key

  Labour   National   NZ First   Independent   Alliance   ACT

No. Name Portrait Term of Office Prime Minister
1 Margaret Shields 24 August 1987 2 November 1990 Lange
Palmer
Moore
2 Katherine O'Regan 2 November 1990 16 December 1996 Bolger
3 Robyn McDonald 16 December 1996 31 August 1998
Shipley
4 Peter McCardle 31 August 1998 10 December 1999
5 Phillida Bunkle 10 December 1999 23 February 2001 Clark
- Jim Anderton
Acting Minister		 23 February 2001 15 August 2002
6 Judith Tizard 15 August 2002 19 November 2008
7 Heather Roy 19 November 2008 17 August 2010 Key
8 John Boscawen 17 August 2010 3 May 2011
9 Simon Power 4 May 2011 14 December 2011
10 Chris Tremain 14 December 2011 2 April 2012
11 Simon Bridges 3 April 2012 30 January 2013
12 Craig Foss 30 January 2013 6 October 2014

See also

Notes
  1. Wilson 1985, pp. 98.

References
  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
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