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Kia ora and thank you for your email.

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Ngâ mihi

 

 

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Kia ora Dan Moskovitz

Thank you for your OIA request received on 16 January 2025 for:

any internal monitoring documents or advice provided related to the USA TikTok ban, or any documents proposing advice regarding a similar ban in Aotearoa.

This email confirms receipt of your request and advises that we will respond to it as soon as reasonably practicable, and in terms of the timeframes and requirements of the OIA.

Please note that our response letter to you (with your personal details redacted), and any enclosed documents, may be published on the Ministry’s website.

Ngâ mihi

Executive Services Division
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade | Manatû Aorere

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Tēnā koe Dan Moskovitz

 

I am writing concerning your Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) request
(reference 29895) of 16 January 2025 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and Trade for:

…any internal monitoring documents or advice provided related to the USA
TikTok ban, or any documents proposing advice regarding a similar ban in
Aotearoa.

This email is to advise that we will need to extend the time limit for
responding to you by 7 working days, to 25 February 2025. This is due to
the consultations necessary to make a decision on your request (section
15(1)(b) of the OIA refers).

 

However, if this process is completed before 25 February 2025, the
response will be sent to you as soon as possible.

 

If you have any questions, you can contact us by email at: DM
[1][email address]. You have the right to seek an investigation and
review by the Ombudsman of this decision by contacting
[2]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.

 

Ngā mihi

Whatupūaho | Executive Services Division
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade | Manatū Aorere

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195 Lambton Quay, Private Bag 18901, Wellington 5045, New Zealand

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Kia ora Dan Moskovitz

 

Please see attached our response to your OIA request of 16 January 2025.

 

Ngā mihi

Whatupūaho | Executive Services Division
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade | Manatū Aorere

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195 Lambton Quay, Private Bag 18901, Wellington 5045, New Zealand

[1]www.mfat.govt.nz | [2]www.safetravel.govt.nz

 

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Kia ora Dan Moskovitz

 

Thank you for contacting us to seek clarification on our response to your
OIA request.

 

Our extension advisory email of 14 February 2025 should have specified
that the deadline to provide a decision on your request had been extended
under both section 15A(1)(a) and (b) of the OIA as the Ministry needed to
search several locations to ascertain if information relevant to your
request was held and this work was not complete at that time. We believed
that consultation would have been required if information had been
located. When the Ministry finalised our response which confirmed no
information existed, this removed the need for any consultation and our
response was provided to you. I apologise for the error and any confusion
this caused.

 

Kind regards

 

Executive Services Division
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade | Manatū Aorere
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195 Lambton Quay, Private Bag 18901, Wellington 5045, New Zealand
[1]www.mfat.govt.nz | [2]www.safetravel.govt.nz

[3]www.mfat.govt.nz | [4]www.embassy.govt.nz | [5]www.aid.govt.nz |
[6]www.safetravel.govt.nz

 

 

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