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Information Act 2002
4APersonal information
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4A Personal information
(1) Government information that discloses a person's identity or from
which a person's identity is reasonably ascertainable is personal
(2) However, the government information is not personal information
to the extent that:
(a) the person's identity is disclosed only in the context of having
acted in an official capacity for a public sector organisation;
and
(b) the government information discloses no other personal
information about the person.
acted in an official capacity, in relation to a public sector
organisation, means having exercised a power or performed a
function as, or on behalf of, the organisation.