27 July 2023
Ref: DOIA 2324-0098
Jonathan Brewer
Email: [FYI request #23329 email]
Tēnā koe Jonathan Brewer
Thank you for your email of 16 July 2023 to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)
requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), the fol owing information:
After the initial publication of PIB 39 version 8.3 in May 2023, a new version of PIB 39 version 8.3
was published replacing it.
What day was the updated PIB 39 version 8.3 published? What were the changes made? How was
the publication of the revised document communicated? Why was the version number not
incremented on the new document?
Please see MBIE’s response to your questions below.
Version 8.3 was published on 31 May 2023
Publication of Version 8.3 occurred on 31 May 2023, after the internal deadline for adding items to the
Radio Spectrum Management (RSM) June Business Update, meaning the communication of this revision
using the Business Update did not occur until July.
Version 8.4 was published on 3 July 2023
Version 8.4 was published on 3 July 2023 to line up with the notification of this version made in the RSM
Business Update on the same date.
MBIE notes that an error was made, and the numbering was not incremented when PIB 39 was updated
in July – this should have been labelled 8.4 and not 8.3. This has been corrected in the version control
table in Version 8.5 of the document. The only change between 8.3 and 8.4 was on page 83 and changed
the Licence Authorisation to allow a Rightholder to cancel the licence, as pictured below:
8.3 (May)
8.4 (July)
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please contact [email address].
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request. Information about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
freephone 0800 802 602.
Nāku noa, nā
Daniel O’Grady
Manager, Radio Spectrum Management Policy and Planning
Digital, Communications & Transformation, MBIE