Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs

New Zealand minister of the Crown

The Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs is a minister in the New Zealand Government 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 administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. The position was established as Minister of Commerce in 1987 and superseded the previous office of Minister of Trade and Industry.

Starting from October 2014, the position was combined with the now-disestablished Minister of Consumer Affairs.

The present Minister is Andrew Bayly.^[2]

List of ministers

The following ministers held the office of Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.^[3]

Key

  National  Labour

Notes

1. "Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances Determination 2016" (PDF). Parliament.nz. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
2. "Ministerial List". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
3. Wilson 1985, pp. 89–97.

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.

External links

• New Zealand Ministry for Business, Employment and Innovation