22 August 2012
Alex Harris
By email: [FYI request #432 email]
Dear Alex
OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT (OIA) REQUEST – MERIDIAN ENERGY LIMITED
Thank you for your email regarding Meridian’s submission to the Law Commission on the OIA.
Your request was:
“I would like to request the following information under the OIA:
* a copy of your submission
* all drafts, advice, and internal communications (including emails) relating to that submission.”
Attached is Meridian’s submission. I have not included the other materials you requested on the
basis of the grounds provided for in section 9 (2) (g) (i) of the OIA.
Section 9 (2) (g) (i) of the OIA states
(2)
“… the withholding of the information is necessary to—
(g)
maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through—
(i) the free and frank expression of opinions by or between or to Ministers of the Crown or
members of an organisation or officers and employees of any department or organisation in
the course of their duty; or”
The additional materials relate to the opinions expressed by and between officers and employees
of Meridian as part of the free and frank discussion required to develop the organisation’s
response. As such these materials have been excluded.
Please note that you have the right, by way of complaint under section 28(3) of the Official
Information Act to an Ombudsman, to seek an investigation and review of our responses.
Yours sincerely
MERIDIAN ENERGY LIMITED
Saki Hannah
Senior Legal Counsel
Direct phone:
(04) 381 1266
Email:
[email address]
Meridian Energy Limited
Level 1, 33 Customhouse Quay
Phone +64-4 381 1200
PO Box 10-840 Fax +64-4 381 1272
Wellington 6143, New Zealand www.meridianenergy.co.nz