Appendix Three: Official Information and Privacy Acts
Official Information Act 1982
Please note that any submissions received by the Ministry will constitute "official information" under the Official Information Act 1982. This Act is designed to give the people of New Zealand access to information, but with exceptions to preserve the public interest and personal privacy.
It is the Ministry's normal practice to prepare a summary of submissions received, together with the Ministry's responses. This summary is intended for circulation to parties who have made submissions.
In providing your submission, please advise us if you have any objections to the release of your submission, and, if you do object, the parts of your submission that you want withheld, and the grounds, under the Official Information Act, for withholding them. The Ministry will carefully consider your reasons when preparing and releasing any summary, and in considering any formal Official Information Act requests that might be received in the future.
Privacy Act 1993
Any personal information that you supply to the Ministry in the course of making your submission will be used only by the Ministry in conjunction with the consideration of matters covered by this consultation paper.
It is the Ministry's normal practice to include the names of parties making submissions when preparing any summary, for public circulation, of submissions on Ministry consultation papers. Your name will be included in any summary unless you inform the Ministry that you do not wish your name to be included.
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