9 July 2024
Sue
[FYI request #27048 email] Kia ora Sue
Your Official Information Act request, reference: GOV-032707
Thank you for your email message of 24 June 2024.
You do not have to answer all of ACC's questions 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 the necessary information about you and the
reasons for your requests, then please let us know.
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 request for official information
Unfortunately, your request seems 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.
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.
Whether your request is or is not one of several related requests, then please tell us so that ACC can
understand how best to respond to your request.
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.
You are free not to answer ACC’s questions, but in the circumstances described a requestor’s refusal to
answer reasonable questions can be relevant to whether ACC must produce the official information sought
in an official information request.
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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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