Official Information Act 1982 No 156 (as at 01 July 2011), Public Act

18A Requests involving substantial collation or research
  • (1) In deciding whether to refuse a request under section 18(f), the department, Minister of the Crown, or organisation must consider whether doing either or both of the following would enable the request to be granted:

    (2) For the purposes of refusing a request under section 18(f), the department, Minister of the Crown, or organisation may treat as a single request 2 or more requests from the same person—

    • (a) that are about the same subject matter or about similar subject matters; and

    • (b) that are received simultaneously or in short succession.

    Section 18A: inserted, on 22 October 2003, by section 3 of the Official Information Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 90).