Planning and Funding
Telephone: 0064 3 364 4130
P O Box 1600,
Fax: 0064 3 364 4165
CHRISTCHURCH
[email address]
20 March 2019
Thai Quoc Khanh
Email: [FYI request #9883 email];
Dear Thai Quoc Khanh
RE Official Information Act request CDHB 10064
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your email dated 19 March 2019 requesting the following
information under the Official Information Act from Canterbury DHB.
My intention is to ask Canterbury District Health Board for preparing strategic plan. Under the New
Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000 (section 38), DHBs have to prepare plan for each
year. I also found that some DHBs published their strategic plan (5-year plan) on their websites.
However, I do not know whether preparing strategic is a statutory obligation. If possible, could you
please explain more detail on this issue?
We will consider your request against the provisions of the Official Information Act (see below) and
advise you of our decision regarding the release of information within 20 working days (being the
statutory timeframe provided within the Act.)
Accordingly, we will notify you, no later than 16 April 2019, of our decision.
Your request is being handled by Kathleen Smitheram. If you have any queries, please feel free to
contact either myself (details above) or Kathleen.
([email address]; Phone 364-
4134). Please refer to the OIA number above when phoning or emailing.
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.
Yours sincerely
Wayne Turp
Project Specialist
15 Decisions on requests
(1) Subject to this Act, the department or Minister of the Crown or organisation to whom a request is made in accordance wit
h section 12
or is transferred in accordance wit
h section 14 of this Act o
r section 12 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act
1987 shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any case not later than 20 working days after the day on which the request is received
by that department or Minister of the Crown or organisation,—
(1)(a) decide whether the request is to be granted and, if it is to be granted, in what manner and for what charge (if any); and
(1)(b) give or post to the person who made the request notice of the decision on the request
[If we are unable to make a decision on your request by the date noted above, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.]