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(b)
(4)
Privacy Act 2020
Version as at
6 December 2023
the reason is not that set out in section 50(1), but the requestor has
requested disclosure of the grounds.
However,—
(a)
subsection (3)(a) does not apply if disclosing the grounds would preju‐
dice the interests protected by section 50(1):
(b)
subsection (3)(b) does not apply if disclosing the grounds would preju‐
dice the interests protected by any of sections 49, 51, and 53:
(c)
subsection (3)(b) does not apply if disclosing the grounds would preju‐
dice the interests protected by section 52 and the withholding of those
grounds is not outweighed by other considerations that make it desirable,
in the public interest, to disclose them.
Compare: 1993 No 28 s 43
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Ways personal information in document may be made available
(1)
If the personal information requested by an individual is in a document, that
information may be made available in 1 or more of the following ways:
(2)
(3)
(a)
by giving the requestor a reasonable opportunity to inspect the docu‐
ment; or
(b)
by providing the requestor with a hard copy or an electronic copy of the
document; or
(c)
in the case of a document that is an article or a thing from which sounds
or visual images are capable of being reproduced, by making arrange‐
ments for the requestor to hear or view the sounds or visual images; or
(d)
in the case of a document by which words are recorded in a manner in
which they are capable of being reproduced in the form of sound or in
which words are contained in the form of shorthand writing or in codi‐
fied form, by providing the requestor with a written transcript of the
words recorded or contained in the document; or
(e)
by giving, in any manner, an excerpt or a summary of the document’s
contents; or
(f)
by giving oral information about the document’s contents.
Subject to section 55, the agency must make the information available in the
way preferred by the requestor unless to do so would—
(a)
impair the efficient administration of the agency; or
(b)
be contrary to any legal duty of the agency in respect of the document;
or
(c)
prejudice an interest protected by any of sections 49 to 53.
If the information is not provided in the way preferred by the requestor, the
agency must give to the requestor—
(a)
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the reason for not providing the information in that way; and