New Zealand Legislation: Acts

13AD If confidentiality order not made

• (1) If the chairperson or a panel convenor refuses to make a confidentiality order, he or she—

  • (a) must return to the applicant all documents constituting or relating to the application for the order; and

  • (b) must not disclose to any person, or give any person access to, any matter relating to the application.

  (2) This section has effect despite anything in section 13 or 65, the Official Information Act 1982, or the Privacy Act 1993.

  Section 13AD: inserted, on 1 October 2007, by section 9 of the Parole Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 28).