Office of the Privacy Commissioner
Privacy Commissioner
PO Box 10091, The Terrace, Wellington 6143
Te Mana Matapono Matatapu
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Level 8. 109 – 111 Featherston Street
Wellington, New Zealand
P +64 4 474 7590 F +64 4 474 7595
E [email address]
0800 803 909 EnquIRes
prIvacy .org.nz
12 March 2020
Emailed to: [FYI request #12388 email]
Kia ora Ms Goodwin
Official Information Act Request (Our Ref: OIA/0036)
I refer to your Official Information Act Request dated 5 March 2020 through www.fyi.org.nz:
“Please provide the total number of monthly contacts (by telephone, email, text, and in
person) between your office (including all subordinates) and any representative of the
Claro Law Firm between the time interval of February 2018 through February 2020.
Please provide in a month by month format and the specific type of contact.”
Your request is refused under section 18(c)(i) of the Official Information Act 1982. This allows
for a request to be refused if making the information available would be contrary to the
provisions of a specified enactment. Here, section 116(1) of the Privacy Act applies. Section
116(1) of the Privacy Act requires this Office to maintain secrecy in respect of all matters that
come to our knowledge when we are carrying out our functions under the Privacy Act 1993,
unless release of information is considered necessary to give effect to the Privacy Act. Here it
is necessary to protect the confidentiality of the complaints process to give effect to the Privacy
Act
If you are not satisfied with this outcome, you have the right to contact the Ombudsman to
seek an investigation and review of this decision.1
Yours sincereIY
John Edwards
Privacy Commissioner
1 https://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/.
OIA/O036/A681212