5 July 2024
Anon
[FYI request #26950 email]
Kia ora
Your Official Information Act request, reference: GOV-032953
Thank you for your message via fyi.org.nz of 3 July 2024, regarding our other responses to your requests
where we have asked for proof of identity.
You do not have to answer all of ACC's questions about your personal information if you prefer not to. ACC
cannot require you to answer any questions about an official information request.
But whether and how you answer ACC’s questions is relevant to how ACC decides to respond to your
official information request, including whether your request should be declined.
Please consider again your option to provide personal information to ACC confidentially. That option is still
available.
If there is some other way that you would prefer to give ACC some of the necessary information about you
and the reasons for your requests, then please let us know. For example, you might tell us about all of your
related official information requests and the reasons for them.
ACC’s questions and the Privacy Act
ACC’s functions include responding to requests for official information made under the Act. Under the Act
ACC sometimes needs to know who has requested official information and why. This is explained below.
IPP 1 of the Privacy Act 2020 permits ACC to obtain personal information for any lawful purpose connected
with its functions. ACC has asked you for the minimum personal information necessary for your request for
official information.
Your requests for official information
Unfortunately, your other requests seem to be one of a large number of apparently closely related official
information requests made to ACC recently that also appear to be made by or on behalf of the same
person, although not all using your name.
These information requests require considerable expense and effort for ACC to respond to and will likely
require even more expense and effort to produce the information sought.
ACC is considering how best to respond to each of them, including whether any of the requests may be
combined under s18A(2) of the Official Information Act 1982 (the “Act”) or whether any should be
declined.
In your 3 July email, you say that this request is one of several by you. Please identify all of your requests,
including any made under other names, so that ACC can understand how best to respond to your requests.
Providing the information that ACC has already asked for about who you are and the reason for your official
information request helps ACC decide how to respond to your request.
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You are free not to answer ACC’s questions, but in the circumstances described if you chose not to do so
that may be relevant to whether ACC must produce the official information sought in your other official
information requests.
If you are not happy with this letter
You can contact the Ombudsman
via [email address] or by phoning 0800 802 602.
Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz. Ngā mihi
Christopher Johnston
Manager Official Information Act Services
Government Engagement
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