New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) Any person may request any local authority to make available to that person any specified official information.
(1A) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, a request made, on or after the date of commencement of this subsection, by or on behalf of a natural person for access to any personal information which is about that person shall be deemed to be a request made pursuant to subclause (1)(b) of principle 6 of the Privacy Act 1993, and shall be dealt with accordingly, and nothing in this Part or in Part 5 of this Act shall apply in relation to any such request.
(2) The official information requested shall be specified with due particularity in the request.
(3) If the person making the request asks that that request be treated as urgent, that person shall give that person's reasons for seeking the information urgently.
Compare: 1982 No 156 s 12; 1987 No 8 s 6
Subsection (1A) was inserted, as from 1 July 1993, by section 3 Local Government Official Information and Meetings Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 37).