Administrative Changes Orders 1977–2023

All branches are removed from the Department of Fair Trading and added to the Department of Commerce.

The Department of Fair Trading is abolished as a Department of the Public Service.

In any document, a reference to the Department of Fair Trading is to be construed as a reference to the Department of Commerce, except as provided by subclause (4).

A reference to the Director-General of the Department of Fair Trading (including a reference that is required by previous Orders to be construed as a reference to the Director-General of the Department of Fair Trading), being a reference in or in relation to legislation administered by the Minister for Fair Trading or the Home Building Act 1989, is to be construed—

as a reference to the Commissioner for Fair Trading, Department of Commerce, or

if there is no such position in that Department, as a reference to the Director-General of that Department.