18 September 2023
Jamie
By email:
[FYI request #23911 email]
Tēnā koe Jamie,
Official Information Act request
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) about the
classification of Final Fantasy XVI, which we received on 21 August 2023.
You said:
Requesting following for Final Fantasy XVI PS5
- Examination transcript;
- Consideration Sheet;
- Summary of Reasons any Discussions in meetings, emails notes. especially
regarding the Suicide in the game.
- Supplementary materials (could be video footage, content declaration
questionnaire, cheat codes);
- Screenshots showing information from the database as seen by OFLC;
- Emails and its attachment to and/or from FVLB, OFLC, distributor,
publisher, developer;
- Forms and its attachment to and/or from FVLB, OFLC, distributor,
publisher, developer, Any other correspondence relating to this game.
In responding to your request, we have weighed up the factors in the OIA,
including the purposes i
n section 4 and the principle of availability in
section 5.
Response to your request
Information we have decided to release
Please find attached to this letter a file containing the information you have
requested.
Attached to this letter is a file containing al of the available information that you
have requested that we have decided to release. This includes:
• the submission form and request for urgent classification from the publisher
of Final Fantasy XVI;
• the consideration sheet and register page for Final Fantasy XVI;
• screenshots of the relevant record in the Classification Database
Application and of the relevant classification Trello card; and
• relevant emails held by the Classification Office.
Parts of some of these documents have been withheld under section 9 of the OIA.
Information we have decided not to release
The publisher of Final Fantasy XVI supplied the Classification Office with two files in
confidence to assist with the examination and classification of this game.
We have reviewed this supplementary material and consider that its release 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.
We also believe that releasing this material would be likely to unreasonably
prejudice the publisher’s commercial position.
Accordingly, your request for supplementary material is declined under sections
9(2)(ba)(i) and 9(2)(b)(i ) of the OIA.
Information that is not available to release
Neither an examination transcript nor a summary of reasons were produced for
this title.
Accordingly, your request for this information is refused under section 18(e) of the
OIA.
Publication of response
This response may be published on the Classification Office’
s website. If it is
published there, your personal information will be redacted.
Right of review
You have the right to make a complaint and seek a review by the Ombudsman of
this response, and decision to transfer part of your request, under
section 28(3) of
the OIA. Information about this process is available at
ombudsman.parliament.nz
or freephone 0800 802 602.
Thank you for your interest in our mahi.
Ngā mihi nui,
Te Mana Whakaatu—Classification Office