OIA20-0856
17 December 2020
Grace Haden
[FYI request #14114 email]
Dear Grace Haden
I refer to your email of 3 December 2020 requesting information relating to the warranting of
SPCA inspectors. Your request has been considered under the Official Information Act 1982
(OIA).
Thank you for the concerns you raise regarding the SPCA’s status as an Approved Organisation,
and by association the status of the warrants for their Inspectors. Regarding the specific case you
refer to, the admissibility of evidence is a matter for the court and is case specific.
You requested:
I therefore also seek urgent clarification as to who Plowright was employed by was it a
member society or the RNZSPCA
Your request for information regarding which organisation Kevin Plowright was employed by was
responded to on 08 December 2020 (reference: OIA20-0792).
Should you have any concerns with this response, I would encourage you to raise these with
the Ministry for Primary Industries at
[email address]. Alternatively, you
are advised of your right to also raise any concerns with the Office of the Ombudsman.
Contact details are: Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143 or at
[email address].
Yours sincerely
Gary Orr
Director Compliance Services
Charles Fergusson Building, 34-38 Bowen Street
PO Box 2526
Wellington 6140, New Zealand
mpi.govt.nz