Dear Ella,

 

I refer to your email of 3 July. Requests under the Official Information
Act (OIA) must be for specified official information – your email does not
specify the years to which your request relates. In order to make a valid
request you must specify this. Further, the only persons eligible to make
requests under the Official Information Act are (a) New Zealand citizens;
(b) permanent residents of New Zealand; (c) persons who are in New
Zealand; or (d) body corporates incorporated in New Zealand or which have
a place of business in New Zealand. Please provide your full name, confirm
your eligibility under section 12 of the Official Information Act to make
this request for official information and provide evidence of that
eligibility to [1][email address].

 

The University has received 21 other similarly worded requests concerning
MBChB entrance statistics over the past year, including five requests so
far this month. Section 18A(2) of the Official Information Act specifies
that, for the purposes of refusing requests under section 18(f) of the
Act, organisations may treat as a single request 2 or more requests from
the same person that are about the same subject matter or about similar
subject matters and received in short succession.  If you do make an
official information request, please advise the following to enable the
University to make a decision on your request:

 

•            advise whether your request for official information was
co-ordinated, or made in conjunction, with any other person/persons (as
defined in section 2 of the Official Information Act), and, if so,
disclose the name/names of these other person/persons

•            advise whether your request for official information was made
at the instruction, request, or on behalf of any other person/persons, and
if so, disclose the names of these other person/s

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Rebecca Ewert

General Counsel

The University of Auckland

 

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