New Zealand Legislation: Acts

27 Security, defence, international relations, etc

• (1) An agency may refuse to disclose any information requested pursuant to principle 6 if the disclosure of the information would be likely—

  • (a) to prejudice the security or defence of New Zealand or the international relations of the Government of New Zealand; or

  • (b) to prejudice the entrusting of information to the Government of New Zealand on a basis of confidence by—

    • (i) the government of any other country or any agency of such a government; or

    • (ii) any international organisation; or

  • (c) to prejudice the maintenance of the law, including the prevention, investigation, and detection of offences, and the right to a fair trial; or

  • (d) to endanger the safety of any individual.

  (2) An agency may refuse to disclose any information requested pursuant to principle 6 if the disclosure of the information would be likely—

  • (a) to prejudice the security or defence of—

    • (i) the self-governing state of the Cook Islands; or

    • (ii) the self-governing state of Niue; or

    • (iii) Tokelau; or

    • (iv) the Ross Dependency; or

  • (b) to prejudice relations between any of the Governments of—

    • (i) New Zealand:

    • (ii) the self-governing state of the Cook Islands:

    • (iii) the self-governing state of Niue; or

  • (c) to prejudice the international relations of the Governments of—

    • (i) the self-governing state of the Cook Islands; or

    • (ii) the self-governing state of Niue.

  Compare: 1982 No 156 s 27(1)(a); 1987 No 8 s 4(2); 1987 No 174 s 26(1)(a)