Budget 2011 Information Release

Information Withheld from Documents#

Key to sections of the Official Information Act 1982 under which information has been withheld.

Certain information in this document has been withheld under one or more of the following sections of the Official Information Act, as applicable:

• [1] 9(2)(a) - to protect the privacy of natural persons, including deceased people
• [2] 9(2)(f)(iv) - to maintain the current constitutional conventions protecting the confidentiality of advice tendered by ministers and officials
• [3] 9(2)(g)(i) - to maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through the free and frank expression of opinions
• [4] 9(2)(b)(ii) - to protect  the commercial position of the person who supplied the information or who is the subject of the information
• [5] 9(2)(k) - to prevent the disclosure of official information for improper gain or improper advantage
• [6] 9(2)(j) - to enable the Crown to negotiate without disadvantage or prejudice
• [7] 6(a) - to prevent prejudice to the security or defence of New Zealand or the international relations of the government
• [8] 9(2)(h) - to maintain legal professional privilege
• [9] 6(c) - to prevent prejudice to the maintenance of the law, including the prevention, investigation, and detection of offences, and the right to a fair trial
• [10] 9(2)(d) - to avoid prejudice to the substantial economic interests of New Zealand
• [11] 9(2)(i) - to enable the Crown to carry out commercial activities without disadvantage or prejudice.

Where information has been withheld, a numbered reference to the applicable section of the Official Information Act has been made, as listed above. For example, an [8] appearing where information has been withheld in a release document refers to section 9(2)(h).

In preparing this Information Release, the Treasury has considered the public interest considerations in section 9(1) of the Official Information Act.

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