249Cabinet documents

249 Cabinet documents

After section 28(3) of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 insert—

"(4) In addition, a document is an exempt document if it is—

(a) a document that is the official record of any representation meeting;

(b) a document that has been prepared—

(i) by a Minister or on the Minister's behalf or by an agency for the purposes of a representation meeting; or

(ii) by the First Peoples' Assembly or on the First Peoples' Assembly's behalf for the purposes of a representation meeting;

(c) a document prepared for the purpose of briefing a Minister or the First Peoples' Assembly in relation to issues to be considered at a representation meeting;

(d) a document given to a Minister or the Cabinet by the First Peoples' Assembly for the purposes of a representation meeting;

(e) a document given to the First Peoples' Assembly by a Minister or the Cabinet for the purposes of a representation meeting;

(f) a document that is a copy or draft of, or contains extracts from, a document referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e);

(g) a document the disclosure of which would involve disclosure of the content or subject of any representation meeting, other than a document by which a decision of the Cabinet was officially published.

(5) Subsection (4) ceases to apply to a document brought into existence after 1 May 2026 when a period of 10 years has elapsed since the last day of the year in which the document came into existence.

(6) Subsection (4) does not apply to a document referred to in a paragraph of that subsection to the extent that the document contains purely statistical, technical or scientific material unless the disclosure of the document would involve the disclosure of any deliberation or decision of the Cabinet or the content or subject of any representation meeting.".