New Zealand Legislation: Acts

21 Right of access to certain official information

• (1) Every person has a right to and shall, on request made under this subsection, be given access to the latest edition of the publication published under section 20 and to any published supplementary material bringing that edition up-to-date.

  (2) Every person, being—

  • (a) a New Zealand citizen; or

  • (b) a permanent resident of New Zealand; or

  • (c) a person who is in New Zealand; or

  • (d) a body corporate which is incorporated in New Zealand; or

  • (e) a body corporate which is incorporated outside New Zealand but which has a place of business in New Zealand,—

  has a right to and shall, on request made under this subsection, be given access to any category of official information that is declared by regulations made under this Act to be a category of official information in respect of which a right of access exists.

  (3) The giving of access to any official information to which subsection (2) applies shall be subject to the provisions of any regulations made under this Act.

  Section 21(2): substituted, on 1 April 1987, by section 12 of the Official Information Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 8).