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Information Act 2002
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82 Commissioner may serve compliance notice
(1) The Commissioner may serve a compliance notice on a public
sector organisation if it appears to the Commissioner that:
(a) the organisation has contravened an IPP or a code of practice;
and
(b) the contravention:
(i) is serious or flagrant; or
(ii) is of a kind that has been done by the organisation on at
least 3 separate occasions within the previous 2 years.
(2) A compliance notice is a notice in writing requiring the public sector
organisation to take specified action within a specified period to
ensure the organisation complies with the IPP or code of practice in
the future.
(3) The Commissioner may serve a compliance notice:
(a) on his or her own initiative; or
(b) because of a complaint made under Part 7.