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29 October 2024
M Bell
[FYI request #28613 email]
Ref: OIA 116399
Tēnā koe
Official Information Act request: Failure to comply
Thank you for your email of 2 October 2024, requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982
(the Act), information regarding prosecutions for failing to comply with the Act. Specifically, you
requested:
Since the act is the law of NZ, under the Official Information Act 1982 please provide how
many prosecutions there have been for any that are subject to the act that have actually
been convicted of failing to comply with the act. To be specific I am asking for
prosecutions of any that are subject to the act where they failed to comply with the act in
response to receiving a lawful official information act request.
Please provide this data year by year since the OIA 1982 came into law.
Your request for this information is refused under section 18(e) of the Act, as the information
does not exist. The Act does not create criminal offences, so it is not an of ence to fail to comply
with it. Instead, the Act creates a mechanism for people to complain to the Ombudsman about
certain decisions that organisations make under the Act. The Ombudsman receives and
investigates hundreds of complaints each year. The Ombudsman regularly publishes detailed
data about those complaints. You can find that information on the Ombudsman’s website at:
ombudsman.parliament.nz/resources.
If you require any further information, please contact Media & Social Media Manager Joe Locke
at [email address].
Please note that this response, with your personal details removed, may be published on the
Ministry website at: justice.govt.nz/about/official-information-act-requests/oia-responses/.
If you are not satisfied with this response, you have the right to make a complaint to the
Ombudsman under section 28(3) of the Act. The Office of the Ombudsman may be contacted by
email to [email address] or by phone on 0800 802 602.
Nāku noa, nā
Louise Ainsley
Manager, Ministerial Services
