New Zealand order of precedence
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- Ambassadors and High Commissioners
- Feesago Siaosi Fepulea?i, 25 March 1997, (Samoa)
- An E. de Bijll Nachenius, 2 December 1999, (Netherlands)
- Gennady I. Shabannikov, 9 February 2000, (Russia)
- Sylvie Matteucci, 27 April 2000, (Switzerland)
- Carlos Appelgren, 13 June 2000, (Chile)
- Hima Takelesi, 24 February 2001, (Niue)
- Chen Mingming, 15 March 2001, (People's Republic of China)
- John Donaghy, 22 September 2001, (Canada)
- Charles J. Swindells, 12 October 2001, (United States)
- Richard Fell, 10 December 2001, (United Kingdom)
- Javier Leon Olavarria, 31 January 2002, (Peru)
- Bal Ram, 8 March 2002, (Fiji)
- Lucy Bogari, 6 June 2002, (Papua New Guinea)
- Sergio Barbosa Serra, 2 October 2002, (Brazil)
- Erich Riedler, 11 December 2002, (Germany)
- Norachit Sinhaseni, 4 February 2003, (Thailand)
- Masaki Saito, 24 July 2003, (Japan)
- Dr Allan Hawke, 4 August 2003, (Australia)
- Tran Hai Hau, 23 September 2003, (Vietnam)
- Jean-Michel Marlaud, 23 September 2003, (France)
- Dr Liana Marolla, 30 October 2003, (Italy)
- Kambiz Sheikh Hassani, 9 December 2003, (Iran)
- Primo Alui Joelianto, 3 February 2004, (Indonesia)
- Evangelos Damianakis, 3 February 2004, (Greece)
- Seetoh Hoy Cheng, 3 February 2004, (Singapore)
- Jung-seung Shin, 29 March 2004, (South Korea)
- María Angélica Arce-Mora, 7 May 2004, (Mexico)
- Sir Thomas Davis, 1 June 2004, (Cook Islands)
- Privy counsellors. In New Zealand, Privy Council appointees are former Prime Ministers, Deputy Prime Ministers, other cabinet ministers who were both senior and long-serving, Chief Justices and senior Court of Appeal justices. The recently established Supreme Court may be a source of Privy Counsellors in future. The following is a partial list, in rough order of membership:
- Lord Cooke of Thorndon, 1977
- Rt Hon Sir Brian Talboys, 1977
- Rt Hon David Lange, 1984
- Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 1986
- Rt Hon Bob Tizard, 1986
- Rt Hon Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, 1989
- Rt Hon Mike Moore, 1990
- Rt Hon Jim Bolger, 1991
- Rt Hon Sir William Birch, 1991
- Rt Hon Thomas Gault, 1992
- Rt Hon Peter Blanchard, 1998
- Rt Hon Paul East, 1998
- Rt Hon Sir Douglas Graham, 1998
- Rt Hon Sir Kenneth Keith, 1998
- Rt Hon Winston Peters, 1998
- Rt Hon Jenny Shipley, 1998
- Rt Hon Andrew Tipping, 1998
- Rt Hon Wyatt Creech, 1999
- Rt Hon Simon Upton, 1999
- Members of parliament: there is no established order of precedence over members of parliament in general, although each party has its internal ranking.
- President and members of the court of appeal and Puisne judges
- Mayors and county chairmen [counties have been abolished: possibly includes regional council chairs]
- Charges d'affaires
- Former prime ministers: all former prime ministers are privy counsellors
- Former cabinet ministers (those entitled to use the style "the honourable")
- Clerk of parliament, controller and auditor-general, chief ombudsman
- Chief of defence staff, chairman of the state services commission, solicitor-general, permanent heads of govt depts
- Service chiefs of staff
- Consuls-general & consuls of countries without diplomatic posts in NZ
- Religious heads
- Knights and knights bachelor
[Note: the overall list came from an unconfirmed Internet source; it will be confirmed]
