19Information officers—functions

19 Information officers—functions (1) The information officer of an agency has the following functions: (a) to deal with access applications made to the agency under part 5; (b) at the request of the principal officer of another agency—to deal with access applications made to the other agency under part 5; (c) to deal with requests made of the agency under part 6; (d) to ensure that the agency meets its obligation to publish open access information under part 4; (e) to consider the appropriateness of the agency’s publication undertakings under part 4; (f) to proactively consider whether and how public access may be given to other government information held by the agency. (2) An information officer may delegate a function mentioned in subsection (1) (a), (b) or (c) to a staff member in the information officer’s agency.

Information officers Part 3 (3) However, the information officer must not delegate the function of— (a) deciding an access application; or (b) refusing to deal with an application; or (c) deciding a request to amend personal information.