5Minister may request information or documents to be given

5.Minister may request information or documents to be given

(1)The Minister may request a government information holder, or each government information holder of a specified class, to give a specified relevant authority specified information or documents —

(a)that are held by or for the government information holder; and

(b)that, in the opinion of the Minister, are, or are likely to be, relevant to authorised purposes.

(2)A request under subregulation (1) must be given in writing to each government information holder that is requested to give specified information or documents under the request.

(3)Without limiting the Interpretation Act 1984 section 76, the request may be given to a government information holder by emailing the request to an email address provided by the government information holder to a relevant authority.