Student's guide to this website

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs website is designed to support its vision: Creating confident consumers.

What’s on our website

The different website sections allow visitors to choose what type of information they want:

For consumer – advice and information on a wide range of topics
For business – advice and information on a wide range of topics for retailers, manufacturers, importers and service providers, to help achieve a fair and informed marketplace
Scams – online service to warn New Zealand consumers about specific types of financial scams from overseas sources
Legislation and policy – a section on policy and law, including discussion papers that give guidance and recommendations to lawmakers, and the research the Ministry does to find out about knowledge gaps
Education – our ACE Consumer resource, designed for Social Studies teachers and students to help them learn how to become Active, Critical and Enquiring consumers.
About MCA – information about the Ministry and how to contact us
Publications – the range of different printed publications for both consumers and business

Other pages that may be helpful are:

Site map – an area that sorts the information on the website in a different way than presented on the home page
Media centre – media releases, our fortnightly column (A Word of Advice), newsletters, and contact details for Ministry media contacts
Search (top right of browser) – when you are looking for something specific that you can’t find elsewhere.

When using ACE Consumer

Teachers may need to guide students on where to look for information on the MCA website when the students are completing the research inquiries in ACE Consumer or when answering questions raised from the Activities. Most of the information will be found in the For consumers sub-section of the website.

Direction to specific topics on the website is provided below.