Dear New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your OIA request below.

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in
any event no later than 20 working days after the day your request was
received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will
notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

If any additional factors come to light which are relevant to your
request, please do not hesitate to contact us so that these can be taken
into account.

Our letter notifying you of our decision on your request will confirm if
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any related documents on the Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission’s
website.

Kind regards

 

Enquiries Team

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Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission
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-----Original Message-----
From: New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties
<[FOI #28987 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, 30 October 2024 5:39 pm
To: Enquiries <[PSC request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Advice on Open Government
Partnership

 

COMMISSION

 

This email was sent from someone outside of Te Kawa Mataaho. Please take
extra care.

 

 

 

Dear Public Service Commission,

 

On 2 April 2024, the Public Service Commission Te Kawa Mataaho responded
to an OIA request – your reference OIA 2024-0037 – and refused to disclose
advice provided to the Minister for the Public Service on New Zealand’s
membership of the Open Government Partnership.

 

The Commission’s response to the request can be found here:
[8]https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/assets...

 

The Commission listed two pieces of advice that it was withholding:

Item 1: Document 2023-0321 dated 20 December 2023 Item 2: Document
2024-0040 dated 15 February 2024

 

The New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties requests:

1.      the titles of these documents; and

2.      a copy of both these documents.

 

The Council also requests:

3.      copies of all other advice provided by the Commission to the
Minister for the Public Service about the Open Government Partnership
since 23 November 2023, including but not limited to the Commission’s
advice to the Minister about responding to the joint letter to the
Minister from civil society organisations dated 13 May 2024 and the draft
response letter that it provided to the Minister
([9]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...);
and

 

4.      the titles and dates of all the documents falling within (3) above
if the documents themselves are withheld; and

 

5.      for any meeting with the Minister for the Public Service at which
the Open Government Partnership discussed, the notes taken by Commission
officials at or after any meeting with the Minister that relate to that
part of the meeting; and

 

6.      all internal memoranda, advice or briefings on (i) membership of
the Open Government Partnership, (ii) creation of a multi-stakeholder
forum, (iii) creation of the fifth National Action Plan.

 

Under section 16(2) of the OIA our preferences are (a) to receive a copy
of the whole document (b) that the information is disclosed in a text
searchable format, either docx, pptx, or PDF, and (c) that it is sent to
the email address from which the Commission received this request. If the
notes referred to in part 5 of our request were only handwritten, our
preference is to receive a scanned copy of the handwritten notes.

 

If the Commission decides that there is 'good reason' under the OIA to
withhold any of the information we are requesting, then under section
19(a)(ii) of the OIA, we further request that the Commission provide us
with the grounds in support of each withholding reason cited for refusal,
and a list of the public interest factors favouring release that it
considered when reaching its decision. We draw the Commission’s attention
to the Ombudsman’s recent case note on how to comply with section
19(a)(ii) of the OIA, which can be found here:
[10]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...

 

If any part of our request is unclear, please don't hesitate to contact
us. We are happy to receive the response to this request in parts if it
would assist the Commission in complying with its obligation to respond as
soon as reasonably practicable and no later than 20 working days.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties

 

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