New Zealand Legislation: Acts

9 Exclusion of public interest immunity

• (1) Subject to subsection (2), the rule of law which authorises or requires the withholding of any document, or the refusal to answer any question, on the ground that the disclosure of the document or the answering of the question would be injurious to the public interest shall not apply in respect of—

  • (a) an investigation by or proceedings before an Ombudsman in relation to any decision under this Act; or

  • (b) any application under section 4(1) of the Judicature Amendment Act 1972 for the review of any decision under this Act;—

  but not so as to give any party any information that that party would not, apart from this section, be entitled to.

  (2) Nothing in subsection (1) affects—

  • (a) section 31; or

  • (b) section 20(1) of the Ombudsmen Act 1975.

  Compare: 1982 No 156 s 11