Minister for Fair Trading (New South Wales)

The Minister for Fair Trading is a minister in the Government of New South Wales responsible for administering legislation and policy in relation to consumer affairs regulation in New South Wales, Australia.

Minister for Fair Trading
Incumbent
Eleni Petinos
since 21 December 2021 (2021-12-21)
Department of Customer Service
StyleThe Honourable
NominatorPremier of New South Wales
AppointerGovernor of New South Wales
Inaugural holderFrederick Hewitt (as the Minister for Consumer Affairs)
Formation3 December 1973

The current minister is Eleni Petinos, since 21 December 2021,[1] who also serves as the Minister for Small Business.[2]

The minister assists the Minister for Customer Service and Digital Government administer their portfolios through the Customer Service cluster, in particular the Office of Fair Trading.[3]

Ultimately the ministers are responsible to the Parliament of New South Wales.

Roles and responsibilities

The portfolio was established in December 1971 in the sixth Askin ministry and the major task of the portfolio was to ensure consumers were treated fairly. This was handled by consumer education, providing a complaints service, licensing some occupational groups, investigating prices and charges, responsible for weights and measures and landlord and tenant matters.[4] The administrative units responsible to the Ministry included the Consumer Affairs Council and Consumer Affairs Bureau, the Weights and Measures Office, the Prices Branch and Registry of Consumer Claims Tribunals. The establishment of the Ministry also coincided with three entirely new acts of Parliament dealing with important aspects of consumer protection, namely the Consumer Claims Tribunals Act 1974, the Pyramid Sales Act 1974 and the Motor Dealers Act 1974.[5]

Since December 2021 the minister is responsible for the regulation of occupations and professions in relation to architects, building and construction, licensed conveyancers, hairdressers, motor dealers and repairers, pawn brokers, plumbers, property stock and business agents and tow trucks.[6]

List of ministers
Ministerial titleMinister [1]PartyMinistryTerm startTerm endTime in officeNotes
Minister for Consumer Affairs Frederick Hewitt   Liberal Askin (6)
Lewis (1) (2)
Willis 		3 December 1973 14 May 1976 2 years, 163 days
Syd Einfeld   Labor Wran (1) (2) (3) 14 May 1976 2 October 1981 5 years, 141 days
Paul Whelan Wran (4) 2 October 1981 1 February 1983 1 year, 122 days
Paul Landa Wran (5) (6) (7) 1 February 1983 10 February 1984 1 year, 9 days
George Paciullo Wran (7) 5 April 1984 6 February 1986 1 year, 307 days
Bob Carr Wran (8) 6 February 1986 4 July 1986 148 days
Deirdre Grusovin Unsworth 4 July 1986 21 March 1988 1 year, 261 days
Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs Gerry Peacocke   National       Grieiner (1) 25 March 1988 6 June 1991 3 years, 73 days
Minister for Consumer Affairs Peter Collins   Liberal Greiner (2)
Fahey (1) 		6 June 1991 3 July 1992 1 year, 27 days
Kerry Chikarovski Fahey (2) 3 July 1992 26 May 1993 327 days
Wendy Machin   National Fahey (3) 26 May 1993 4 April 1995 1 year, 313 days
Faye Lo Po'   Labor Carr (1) 4 April 1995 6 December 1995 2 years, 241 days
Minister for Fair Trading 6 December 1995 1 December 1997
Brian Langton Carr (2) 1 December 1997 30 April 1998 150 days
Jeff Shaw 30 April 1998 8 April 1999 343 days
John Watkins Carr (3) 8 April 1999 21 November 2001 2 years, 227 days
John Aquilina 21 November 2001 2 April 2003 1 year, 132 days
Reba Meagher Carr (4) 2 April 2003 21 January 2005 1 year, 294 days
John Hatzistergos 1 February 2005 3 August 2005 183 days
Diane Beamer Iemma (1) 3 August 2005 2 April 2007 1 year, 242 days
Linda Burney Iemma (2) 2 April 2007 5 September 2008 1 year, 156 days
Virginia Judge Rees
Keneally 		5 September 2008 28 March 2011 2 years, 204 days
Anthony Roberts   Liberal O'Farrell 3 April 2011 9 December 2013 2 years, 250 days
Stuart Ayres Baird (1) 9 December 2013 6 May 2014 148 days
Matthew Mason-Cox 6 May 2014 2 April 2015 331 days
Minister for Fair Trading Eleni Petinos   Liberal Perrottet (2) 21 December 2021 incumbent 132 days [2]

See also

References
  1. Part 6 Ministries since 1856 (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  2. "Parliament, Ministerial, Courts and Police (662)" (PDF). Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 21 December 2021.
  3. "About Fair Trading". NSW Fair Trading. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  4. "PFO-145 Consumer Affairs [I]". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 11 March 2022.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  5. "AGY-1050 Ministry of Consumer Affairs (1973-1976) Department of Consumer Affairs [I] (1976-1988)". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 11 March 2022.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  6. "Administrative Arrangements (Second Perrottet Ministry - Allocation of Acts and Agencies) Order 2021". Legislation NSW. 21 December 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2022.


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