The Treasury
New Zealand Aluminium Smelters (NZAS) Information Release
September 2013
Release Document
www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/information-releases/nzas
Key to sections of the Official Information Act 1982 under which information has been withheld.
Certain information in this document has been withheld under one or more of the following sections
of the Official Information Act, as applicable:
[1] 9(2)(a) - to protect the privacy of natural persons, including deceased people
[2] 9(2)(b)(ii) - to protect the commercial position of the person who supplied the information, or
who is the subject of the information
[3] 9(2)(f)(iv) - to maintain the current constitutional conventions protecting the confidentiality of
advice tendered by ministers and officials
[4] 9(2)(g)(i) - to maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through the free and frank
expression of opinions
[5] 9(2)(i) - to enable the Crown to carry out commercial activities without disadvantage or
prejudice
[6] 9(2)(j) - to enable the Crown to negotiate without disadvantage or prejudice
[7] 9(2)(ba)(i) - to protect information which is subject to an obligation of confidence or which any
person has been or could be compelled to provide under the authority of any enactment,
where the making available of the information would be likely to prejudice the supply of similar
information, or information from the same source, and it is in the public interest that such
information should continue to be supplied
[8] 9(2)(h) – to maintain professional legal privilege
Where information has been withheld, a numbered reference to the applicable section of the Official
Information Act has been made, as listed above. For example, a [3] appearing where information
has been withheld in a release document refers to section 9(2)(f)(iv).
In preparing this Information Release, the Treasury has considered the public interest
considerations in section 9(1) of the Official Information Act.
