Act and Code Review consultation - Publishing and data protection - Health and Disability Commissioner NZ

Publishing and data protection

This section provides important information about the release of your information. Please read it carefully.

You can find more information in the Privacy Policy for this website.

Being open about our evidence and insights is important to us. This means there are several ways that we may share the responses we receive through this consultation. These may include:

Publishing all, part or a summary of a response (including the names of respondents and their organisations)
Releasing information when we are required to do so by law (including under the Official Information Act 1982

May we publish your submission?

(Required) Yes, you may publish my submission Yes, but please remove my name/my organisation No, you may not release my submission, unless required to do by law

Please note any part(s) of your submission you do not want published:

Reasons to withhold parts of your submission

HDC is subject to the Official Information Act 1982 (The OIA). This means that when responding to a request made under the OIA, we may be required to disclose information you have provided to us in this consultation.

Please let us know if you think there are any reasons we should not release information you have provided, including personal health information, and in particular:

which part(s) you think should be withheld, and
the reason(s) why you think it should be withheld.

We will use this information when preparing our responses to requests for copies of and information on responses to this document under the OIA.

Please note: When preparing OIA responses, we will consider any reasons you have provided here. However, this does not guarantee that your submission will be withheld. Valid reasons for withholding official information are specified in the Official Information Act.

Yes, I would like HDC to consider withholding parts of my submission from responses to OIA requests.

I think these parts of my submission should be withheld, for these reasons:

If needed, can we to contact you to follow up for more detail on your submission?

(Required) Yes, you can contact me No, do not contact me

Would you like to receive updates about the review?

I’d like to receive updates about the review I’d like to receive updates from the HDC about this and other mahi