New Zealand order of precedence - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Order of precedence in New Zealand was approved by the Queen Elizabeth II on 9 January 1974, and amended to include former Governors-General on 10 September 1981. While the Queen herself is not listed in the order of precedence, as Queen of New Zealand she holds the highest precedence in New Zealand.

The Governor-General
Governor-General of New Zealand
The Governor-General of New Zealand is the representative of the monarch of New Zealand . The Governor-General acts as the Queen's vice-regal representative in New Zealand and is often viewed as the de facto head of state....

(Sir Jerry Mateparae
Jerry Mateparae
Lieutenant General Sir Jeremiah "Jerry" Mateparae, GNZM, QSO is New Zealand's 20th Governor-General. He was Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force between 2006 and 2011, the first Māori person to hold the office, and the Director of the New Zealand Government Communications Security Bureau from 7...

) or (whilst acting in the place of the Governor-General) the deputy of the Governor-General or the officer administering the Government
Administrator of the Government
An Administrator in the constitutional practice of some countries in the Commonwealth is a person who fulfils a role similar to that of a Governor or a Governor-General...
The Prime Minister
Prime Minister of New Zealand
The Prime Minister of New Zealand is New Zealand's head of government consequent on being the leader of the party or coalition with majority support in the Parliament of New Zealand...

(Rt Hon John Key
John Key
John Phillip Key is the 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand, in office since 2008. He has led the New Zealand National Party since 2006....

)
The Speaker of the House of Representatives
Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
In New Zealand the Speaker of the House of Representatives is the individual who chairs the country's legislative body, the New Zealand House of Representatives...

(Dr the Rt Hon Lockwood Smith
Lockwood Smith
Alexander Lockwood Smith is a New Zealand politician, the 28th and current Speaker of the House of Representatives. Smith is a member of the New Zealand National Party, who has served as a Member of Parliament since 1984...

)
The Dean of the Diplomatic Corps
Diplomatic corps
The diplomatic corps or corps diplomatique is the collective body of foreign diplomats accredited to a particular country or body.The diplomatic corps may, in certain contexts, refer to the collection of accredited heads of mission who represent their countries in another state or country...

(His Excellency Mr Anthony Le Clerk Kgwadu Mongalo, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

)
The Deputy Prime Minister
Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
The Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand is second most senior officer in the Government of New Zealand, although this seniority does not necessarily translate into power....

and Ministers of the Crown
Ministers of the New Zealand Government
Ministers, in the New Zealand government, are Members of Parliament who hold ministerial warrants from the Crown to perform certain functions of government...

(ordered by ministerial rank; list as of 19 November 2008)
- Hon Bill English
  Bill English
  Simon William "Bill" English is the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Minister of Infrastructure of New Zealand.English entered parliament in 1990 as a National party MP representing the Wallace electorate...
  
  (Deputy Prime Minister)
- Hon Gerry Brownlee
  Gerry Brownlee
  Gerard Anthony "Gerry" Brownlee is a New Zealand politician. He served from 17 November 2003 to 27 November 2006 as deputy-leader of the National Party – during that period the second-largest party in the New Zealand Parliament, and thus forming the core of the Opposition...
- Hon Simon Power
  Simon Power
  Simon James Power is a New Zealand politician. He is a prominent member of the National Party and a cabinet minister. He currently holds the posts of Minister of Justice, Minister for State Owned Enterprises, Minister of Commerce, Minister Responsible for the Law Commission andAssociate Minister...
- Hon Tony Ryall
  Tony Ryall
  Anthony Boyd Williams "Tony" Ryall is New Zealand politician. He has represented voters and the National Party in the New Zealand Parliament since 1990. Since November 2008 he has served as a cabinet minister, holding the posts of Minister of Health and Minister of State Services...
- Hon Nick Smith
  Nick Smith (New Zealand)
  Nicolas Rex "Nick" Smith is a New Zealand politician and a member of the New Zealand Parliament as a National Party MP...
- Hon Judith Collins
  Judith Collins
  Judith Anne Collins is a New Zealand National Party politician and a lawyer. She is a front bench Cabinet minister with the portfolios of Police, Corrections and Veterans' Affairs in the Fifth National Government....
- Hon Anne Tolley
  Anne Tolley
  Anne Merrilyn Tolley is a politician representing the New Zealand National Party. With the formation of the Fifth National Government in late 2008, she became the Minister of Education, the first woman ever to assume the role.Tolley is the Member for the East Coast electorate, representing...
- Hon Chris Finlayson
  Chris Finlayson
  Christopher Francis Finlayson is a New Zealand lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament, representing the National Party. He is a Cabinet minister and the Attorney-General of New Zealand...
- Hon David Carter
  David Carter (politician)
  David Cunningham Carter is a New Zealand politician, currently a government cabinet minister. He is a member of the National Party.-Early life:...
- Hon Murray McCully
  Murray McCully
  Murray Stuart McCully is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the National Party, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister for Sport and Recreation, and Minister for the Rugby World Cup.-Early life:...
- Hon Tim Groser
  Tim Groser
  Timothy John Groser is a current New Zealand politician and former diplomat.-Early years:He was born in Perth, Scotland and came to New Zealand with his parents in 1958...
- Hon Wayne Mapp
  Wayne Mapp
  Wayne Daniel Mapp is a New Zealand politician, representing the National Party in the New Zealand Parliament. He has served as the MP for the North Shore electorate since the 1996 elections. Before entering politics, he lectured in commercial law at University of Auckland.-Early years:He gained...
- Hon Steven Joyce
  Steven Joyce
  Steven Leonard Joyce is a New Zealand politician, who entered the New Zealand House of Representatives in 2008 as a member of the New Zealand National Party...
- Hon Georgina Te Heuheu
  Georgina Te Heuheu
  Georgina Manunui te Heuheu QSO is a Māori descent of Tūhoe, Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa and Ngāti Awa. MP in the New Zealand National Party and a Cabinet Minister in the New Zealand Government.-Early life:...
- Hon Paula Bennett
  Paula Bennett
  Paula Lee Bennett is a New Zealand politician and member of parliament for the National Party. She is a Cabinet minister with the roles of Minister for Social Development and Employment, Minister for Disability Issues and Minister of Youth Affairs.-Early life:Bennett was born in 1969 to Bob...
- Hon Phil Heatley
- Hon Hekia Parata
  Hekia Parata
  Hon. Hekia Parata, Lady Gardiner is a New Zealand politician and member of the New Zealand House of Representatives, having been elected to parliament in the 2008 general election...
- Hon Jonathan Coleman
- Hon Kate Wilkinson
  Kate Wilkinson
  Kate Wilkinson was an American stage, film and television actress, best known for her roles as Viola Stapleton in the CBS soap opera Guiding Light, a role she played from 1976 to 1981, and Clara Hudson on the NBC soap opera Another World, which she played from 1987 to 1989.In addition to...
- Hon Maurice Williamson
  Maurice Williamson
  Maurice Donald Williamson is a New Zealand politician, representing Pakuranga in the House of Representatives as a member of the National Party...
  
  (outside cabinet)
- Hon John Carter
  John Carter (New Zealand)
  John McGregor Carter is a New Zealand politician, and member of the National Party. He represented the Bay of Islands, Far North and Northland electorates from 1987 until June 2011...
  
  (outside cabinet)
- Hon Rodney Hide
  Rodney Hide
  Rodney Hide is a New Zealand politician who was leader of the political party ACT New Zealand from 2004 to 2011. From 2005 to 2011 he represented the electorate of Epsom as its Member of Parliament. Rodney Hide was Minister of Local Government, Associate Minister of Commerce and Minister of...
  
  (outside official coalition)
- Hon Pita Sharples
  Pita Sharples
  Pita Russell Sharples, CBE, , a Māori academic and politician, currently co-leads the Māori Party. He currently is the member for Tamaki Makaurau in New Zealand's Parliament.-Early life:...
  
  (outside official coalition)
- Hon Tariana Turia
  Tariana Turia
  Tariana Turia is a New Zealand politician. She gained considerable prominence during the foreshore and seabed controversy, and eventually broke with her party as a result...
  
  (outside official coalition)
- Hon Peter Dunne
  Peter Dunne
  Peter Dunne is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament who leads the United Future political party. He has served as a Cabinet minister in governments dominated by the centre-left Labour Party as well as by the centre-right National Party...
  
  (outside official coalition)
Former Governors-General
- Dame Catherine Tizard
  Catherine Tizard
  Dame Catherine Anne Tizard, was Mayor of Auckland City and the 16th Governor-General of New Zealand, the first woman to hold either office.-Early life:...
  
  , 1990–1996
- Sir Michael Hardie Boys
  Michael Hardie Boys
  -External links:*-References:...
  
  , 1996–2001
- Dame Silvia Cartwright
  Silvia Cartwright
  Dame Silvia Rose Cartwright, PCNZM, DBE, QSO, DStJ was the 18th Governor-General of New Zealand.She is a graduate of the University of Otago, where she gained her LL.B degree in 1967, and a former student at Otago Girls' High School.- Public life and family :In 1989, she became the first female...
  
  , 2001–2006
The Chief Justice
Chief Justice
The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

(Dame Sian Elias
Sian Elias
Dame Sian Seerpoohi Elias, GNZM, PC, QC is the Chief Justice of New Zealand, and is therefore the most senior member of the country's judiciary. She is the presiding judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand...

)
Ambassador
Ambassador
An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

s and High Commissioner
High Commissioner
High Commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment.The English term is also used to render various equivalent titles in other languages.-Bilateral diplomacy:...

s in New Zealand for Her Majesty's Governments elsewhere, according to date of presentation of Letters of Credence or of assumption of duty, and Foreign Ministers and Envoys. See the Ministry of Foreign Affairs order of precedence page for a list.
The Leader of the Opposition
Leader of the Opposition (New Zealand)
The Leader of the Opposition in New Zealand is the politician who, at least in theory, commands the support of the non-government bloc of members in the New Zealand Parliament. In the debating chamber the Leader of the Opposition sits directly opposite the Prime Minister...

in the Parliament of New Zealand (Hon Phil Goff
Phil Goff
Philip Bruce Goff is the current Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party. During the Fifth Labour Government, he served in a number of ministerial portfolios, including Minister of Defence of New Zealand, Minister of Corrections, Minister of Foreign Affairs and...

)
Privy Counsellors
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign in the United Kingdom...

Until 1999 it was traditional for the Prime Minister, senior and long-serving Ministers of the Crown, the Chief Justice and Judges of the Court of Appeal to be appointed to the Privy Council. No appointments were made during the term of the Fifth Labour Government. http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/overview/honourable_privycouncil.html.
- Rt Hon Sir Owen Woodhouse
  Owen Woodhouse
  Arthur "Owen" Woodhouse, ONZ, KBE, DSC is a New Zealand jurist and chair of government commissions.He was born in Napier and graduated from the University of Auckland with an LL.B. in 1940. During the World War II he served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve...
  
  , 16 October 1974
- Rt Hon Sir Brian Talboys
  Brian Talboys
  Sir Brian Edward Talboys, CH, KCB, AC, is a former New Zealand politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister for the first two terms of Robert Muldoon's premiership. If the abortive "Colonels' Coup" against Muldoon had been successful, Talboys would have become Prime Minister himself.-Early...
  
  , 17 January 1977
- Rt Hon Sir Ronald Davison
  Ronald Davison
  Sir Ronald Keith Davison, GBE, CMG, QC was the tenth Chief Justice of New Zealand from 1978 to 1989.Sir Ronald headed the government inquiry into certain matters related to overseas company taxation, popularly known as the Winebox Inquiry. This involved allegations against a number of parties...
  
  , 31 May 1978
- Rt Hon Sir Ivor Richardson
  Ivor Richardson
  Sir Ivor Lloyd Morgan Richardson, PCNZM is an eminent New Zealand and Commonwealth jurist and legal writer and a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.-Education:...
  
  , 31 May 1978
- Rt Hon Sir Duncan McMullin, 30 April 1980
- Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 23 January 1985
- Rt Hon Bob Tizard, 23 December 1985
- Rt Hon Sir Maurice Casey
  Maurice Casey
  Maurice Casey is British scholar of New Testament and early Christianity. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham, having served there as Professor of New Testament Languages and Literature at the Department of Theology....
  
  , 25 November 1986
- Rt Hon Sir Gordon Bisson
  Gordon Bisson
  The Right Honourable Sir Gordon Ellis Bisson, Kt. PC LLB was a Court of Appeal judge and a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.-Early life and education:...
  
  , 15 September 1987
- Rt Hon Sir Thomas Eichelbaum
  Thomas Eichelbaum
  Sir Johann Thomas Eichelbaum, GBE, QC was the eleventh Chief Justice of New Zealand.-Early life:He was born in Königsberg, Germany, and his family emigrated to Wellington, New Zealand in 1938 to escape the persecution of Jews...
  
  , 1 November 1989
- Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt
  Jonathan Hunt (New Zealand)
  Jonathan Lucas Hunt, ONZ is a New Zealand politician, and was New Zealand's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2005 to March 2008. He formerly served as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives. He is a member of the Labour Party, and was until recently the longest-serving MP...
  
  , 1 November 1989
- Rt Hon Sir Michael Hardie Boys
  Michael Hardie Boys
  -External links:*-References:...
  
  , 1 November 1989 (former Governor-General, see above)
- Rt Hon Helen Clark
  Helen Clark
  Helen Elizabeth Clark, ONZ is a New Zealand political figure who was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand for three consecutive terms from 1999 to 2008...
  
  , 9 February 1990
- Rt Hon Mike Moore, 9 February 1990
- Rt Hon Jim Bolger
  Jim Bolger
  James Brendan "Jim" Bolger, ONZ was the 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1990 to 1997. Bolger was elected on the promise of delivering a "Decent Society" following the previous Labour government's economic reforms, known as Rogernomics...
  
  , 16 April 1991
- Rt Hon Sir Don McKinnon
  Don McKinnon
  Sir Donald Charles "Don" McKinnon, ONZ, GCVO is a former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand. He was the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2000 until 2008.-Early life:...
  
  , 8 April 1992
- Rt Hon Sir Bill Birch
  Bill Birch
  Sir William Francis Birch, GNZM , usually known as Bill Birch, is a former New Zealand politician. He served as Minister of Finance for several years in the fourth National government.-Early life:...
  
  , 8 April 1992
- Rt Hon Sir Thomas Gault
  Thomas Gault
  Sir Thomas Munro Gault, KNZM, QC, PC was a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand and is a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom as well as a non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong....
  
  , 8 April 1992
- Rt Hon Sir Ian Lloyd McKay, 8 April 1992
- Rt Hon Sir John Henry
  John Henry (New Zealand Justice)
  Sir John Steele Henry, KNZM, QC, is a New Zealand jurist and former Court of Appeal judge, and member of the well-known Henry Family.The son of former High Court judge, the Hon...
  
  , 19 November 1996
- Rt Hon Sir Ted Thomas, 19 November 1996
- Rt Hon Dame Jenny Shipley
  Jenny Shipley
  Dame Jenny Shipley, DNZM , served as the 36th Prime Minister of New Zealand from December 1997 to December 1999, the first woman to hold this office and the first, and to date only, woman to serve as parliamentary leader of the National Party of New Zealand.-Early life:Shipley was born as Jennifer...
  
  , 24 June 1998
- Rt Hon Winston Peters
  Winston Peters
  Winston Raymond Peters is a New Zealand politician and leader of New Zealand First, a political party he founded in 1993. Peters has had a turbulent political career since entering Parliament in 1978. He served as Minister of Maori Affairs in the Bolger National Party Government before being...
  
  , 24 June 1998
- Rt Hon Sir Doug Graham
  Doug Graham
  Sir Douglas Arthur Montrose "Doug" Graham KNZM is a former New Zealand politician. He was an MP from 1984 to 1999, representing the National Party.-Early life:...
  
  , 24 June 1998
- Rt Hon Paul East
  Paul East
  Paul Clayton East, CNZM, QC, is a former New Zealand politician.-Early life:Paul East was educated at King's College and The University of Auckland He was a Member of Parliament from 1978 to 1999, representing the National Party....
  
  , 24 June 1998
- Rt Hon Sir Kenneth Keith
  Kenneth Keith
  Sir Kenneth James Keith, ONZ, KBE, QC is a New Zealand judge appointed to the International Court of Justice in November 2005....
  
  , 24 June 1998
- Rt Hon Sir Peter Blanchard, 24 June 1998
- Rt Hon Sir Andrew Tipping, 24 June 1998
- Rt Hon Wyatt Creech
  Wyatt Creech
  Wyatt Beetham Creech, CNZM is a former New Zealand politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister in Jenny Shipley's National Party government from August 1998 to December 1999.-Early life:...
  
  , 24 November 1999
- Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias
  Sian Elias
  Dame Sian Seerpoohi Elias, GNZM, PC, QC is the Chief Justice of New Zealand, and is therefore the most senior member of the country's judiciary. She is the presiding judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand...
  
  , 24 November 1999 (Current Chief Justice, see above)
- Rt Hon Simon Upton
  Simon Upton
  Simon David Upton, QSO is a former New Zealand politician and member of Parliament from 1981 to 2001, representing the National Party.-Early life:...
  
  , 14 December 1999
Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
New Zealand House of Representatives
The New Zealand House of Representatives is the sole chamber of the legislature of New Zealand. The House and the Queen of New Zealand form the New Zealand Parliament....

. There is no established order of precedence over members of parliament in general, although each party has its internal ranking.
Judges of the Supreme Court
President and puisne judges of the Court of Appeal
Chief High Court Judge and other judges of the High Court
"Mayors of cities and boroughs and chairmen of counties while in their own districts." In 1989, boroughs and counties were amalgamated into district councils. District mayors, and the Chatham Islands mayor could expect to be accorded this same precedence.
Charges d'Affaires
Former Prime Ministers (all living former Prime Ministers are members of the Privy Council and thus have higher precedence)
Former Ministers of the Crown in New Zealand
- John Tamihere
  John Tamihere
  John Henry Tamihere is a New Zealand media personality and former politician. He served as a Cabinet minister in the governing Labour Party from August 2002 to 3 November 2004.-Early life:...
  
  (2002 – 3 November 2004)
- and others
The Clerk of the Parliament of New Zealand, Controller and Auditor-General and the Parliamentary Commissioner for Investigations (the Chief Ombudsman)
The Chief of Defence Staff, the Chairman of the State Services Commission, the Solicitor-General and Permanent Heads of Civil Departments of State
- Lieutenant General Rhys Jones
  Rhys Jones (soldier)
  Lieutenant General Richard Rhys Jones is the current Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force.-Early life:Jones was born in in Timaru, the son of Methodist minister Alan Jones and the youngest in a family of nine, six in his immediate family plus three half-brothers including writer Owen Marshall...
  
  (Chief of Defence Force since 24th January 2011)
- and others
Chiefs of Staff of the Defence Forces
- Rear Admiral Jack Steer, ONZM (Vice Chief of Defence Force)
- Rear Admiral Tony Parr
  Tony Parr
  Rear Admiral Tony Parr MVO is the current Chief of the Royal New Zealand Navy.- Early life :Rear Admiral Parr was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He was Raised in Fiji and attended New Plymouth Boys' High School as a boarder...
  
  , MVO (Chief of Navy)
- Major General -- (Chief of Army
  New Zealand Army
  The New Zealand Army , is the land component of the New Zealand Defence Force and comprises around 4,500 Regular Force personnel, 2,000 Territorial Force personnel and 500 civilians. Formerly the New Zealand Military Forces, the current name was adopted around 1946...
  
  )
- Air Vice-Marshal Peter Stockwell
  Peter Stockwell
  Air Vice-Marshal Peter James Stockwell AFC is the current Chief of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.-Career:Stockwell joined the RNZAF in January 1973 as a navigator. On the completion of his navigator training, Stockwell was posted to No. 1 Squadron which flew the B170 Bristol Freighter at that...
  
  , AFC
  Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)
  The Air Force Cross is a military decoration awarded to personnel of the United Kingdom Armed Forces, and formerly also to officers of the other Commonwealth countries, for "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying, though not in active operations against the enemy"...
  
  , (Chief of Air Force)
Consuls-General & Consuls of countries without diplomatic representation in New Zealand
Heads of religious denominations in New Zealand
Knights of the various orders and Knights Bachelor
Knight Bachelor
The rank of Knight Bachelor is a part of the British honours system. It is the most basic rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised Orders of Chivalry...

, according to their precedence in the United Kingdom

Main Source: NZ Gazette 1974 vol I pp5-6 and NZ Gazette 1981 vol II p2575

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