Doug Kidd

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The Honourable
Sir Douglas Kidd
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Kidd in 2014
25th Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office
12 December 1996 –20 December 1999

Kidd was born in Levin. From 1960 to 1964, he served in the New Zealand Army Territorial Force as a bombardier gunlayer. He later obtained a LLB from Victoria University of Wellington, and worked as a lawyer. He also had business interests in aquaculture, forestry, and wine making.

Member of Parliament

New Zealand Parliament
YearsTermElectorateListParty
1978 –1981 39th Marlborough National
1981 –1984 40th Marlborough National
1984 –1987 41st Marlborough National
1987 –1990 42nd Marlborough National
1990 –1993 43rd Marlborough National
1993 –1996 44th Marlborough National
1996 –1999 45th Kaikoura 14 National
1999 –2002 46th List17 National

Kidd was first elected to Parliament in the 1978 election, becoming MP for Marlborough. In the government of Jim Bolger, Kidd held a number of minor ministerial portfolios, including Fisheries, Energy and Labour. He held his Marlborough electorate until the 1996 election, when the electorate was abolished and most of its area incorporated into the new and larger Kaikoura electorate. Kidd came first in Kaikoura in 1996. [2] In the following election he sought election as a list MP only. He was succeeded in Kaikoura by Lynda Scott and retired from Parliament at the 2002 election. [3]

Status of the Unborn Child Bill

In 1983 Kidd's anti-abortion Status of the Unborn Child Bill (a private members bill) was drawn from the lot. The bill was prompted by Wall v Livingston [1982], which clarified that embryos and foetuses had no legal status in New Zealand and that third parties could not appeal to the courts on their behalf. The bill was supported by groups such as Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (now Voice for Life and Right to Life New Zealand) but defeated by pro-choice groups led by Marilyn Waring. [4]

Speaker of the House

After the 1996 election, Kidd was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives; Derek Quigley also contested the position. [5] He replaced Peter Tapsell, a Labour Party MP who had held the speakership because National, which had won the election by a single seat, did not want to lose a vote by appointing a Speaker from its own ranks. Kidd lost the speakership when the National Party lost the 1999 election, being replaced by Jonathan Hunt of the Labour Party. After serving a term in Opposition, he chose to retire from politics at the 2002 election. [6]

After Parliament

In the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honours, Kidd was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services as Speaker of the House of Representatives between 1996 and 1999, [7] [8] and he accepted redesignation as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in August 2009 following the restoration of titular honours by the New Zealand government. [9] [10]

Kidd was appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal in 2004. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Doug Kidd to retire after 24 years as MP". The New Zealand Herald . 11 March 2002. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  2. ↑ "Electorate Candidate and Party Votes Recorded at Each Polling Place – Kaikoura, 1996" (PDF). Retrieved 13 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "Doug Kidd to retire after 24 years as MP". NZ Herald. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  4. ↑ Marilyn Pryor The Right to Live: The Abortion Battle of New Zealand: Auckland: Haelan Books: 1985 ISBN   0-908630-23-9
  5. ↑ "Shirley mounts challenge for Speaker". The New Zealand Herald . 26 August 2002. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  6. ↑ "Tears flow as 16 MPs say goodbye". The New Zealand Herald . 31 July 2002. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  7. ↑ "Officers share honour". The New Zealand Herald . 11 August 2000. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  8. ↑ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2000 (including special list for East Timor)". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 5 June 2000. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  9. ↑ Howie, Cherie (19 August 2009). "Douglas Kidd receives knighthood". The Marlborough Express. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  10. ↑ "Special honours list 1 August 2009". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 5 April 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  11. ↑ "Honourable Sir Douglas Kidd". Waitangi Tribunal. Archived from the original on 23 May 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
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Preceded by Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
1996–1999		Succeeded by
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New constituency Member of Parliament for Kaikoura
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