本文的主要目的，在於藉由探求台灣在民國九十二年SARS 防疫期間，中央與地方政府的消保行政機關調查與處理口罩囤積及哄抬價格之情形，以瞭解立法機關對於消保行政機關「監督機制」的自變項，加入此時期在時空上重要的焦點事件等中介變項，對於消費者「表達權」與「需求權」所產生的影響。 對於消保行政機關而言，維持現狀且不引起媒體注意，是明哲保身的最佳策略，除非必要，最好避免與立法機關有接觸之機會，以免受到立法監督機制的檢視。但就此次之調查結果觀之，立法機關監督行政機關的機制，確實對於協助消費者主張其權益有所助益。因此消保行政機關雖不願受到立法監督之箝制，但若能因其之不便，而使消費者應有之權益得以伸張，這才是消費者之福，亦才能充分符合消保行政機關之成立宗旨。

This paper is written to research the influence of the legislative supervision mechanism, as the independent variable, over consumer protection agencies through studying the investigations and processing methods for hoarding and bidding up of masks during the SARS period in 2003 by both central and local consumer protection agencies. Consequently, considering crucial focusing events during that period as intervening variables simultaneously, this paper is further written to detect how do these variables affect consumers’ rights of representation and of needs. The best way for consumer protection agencies being worldly wise and playing safe is to remain present situation without raising attention from the media. Unless being necessary, they avoid any chances to contact with legislatures, aiming to evade investigations from legislative supervision mechanism. Nevertheless, our research shows that the mechanism of the legislatures supervising consumer protection agencies does encourage and support consumers to stand for their rights. Therefore, although legislative supervision mechanism does not have the capacity to spin down the consumer protection agencies, consumers’ rights could be upheld if legislative supervision mechanism covers these inconvenience. This is the benefit for consumers and complying with the purpose to establish consumer protection agencies.