New Zealand Legislation: Acts

17B Duty to consider consulting person if request likely to be refused under section 17(e) or (f)

• If a request is likely to be refused under section 17(e) or (f), the local authority must, before that request is refused, consider whether consulting with the person who made the request would assist that person to make the request in a form that would remove the reason for the refusal.

  Sections 17A and 17B were inserted, as from 22 October 2003, by section 3 Local Government Official Information and Meetings Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 82).