This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Official Information request 'Acts of violence by claimants against ACC employees in the work place'.

 
5 July 2024 
 
Sue 
[FYI request #27060 email]  
[email address]  
 
 
Kia ora  
 
 
Your Official Information Act request, reference: GOV-032738 
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 are 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.    
 
 
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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.   
 
If you are not happy with this letter 
You can also 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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