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343J: EPA may require information from local authority
or “The EPA can ask local councils for information to help them deal with problems.”
You could also call this:

“The EPA must report on its law enforcement actions in its yearly report, but can keep some information secret to protect the law and fair trials.”

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has to write a yearly report about how well it’s doing its job of enforcing rules. This report is part of a bigger report they have to do every year.

In this report, the EPA needs to tell you about the different ways they’ve made sure people are following the rules. They have to say how many times they’ve had to take action and what kinds of actions they took.

But here’s the thing: the EPA doesn’t have to tell you everything. If sharing some information might make it hard for them to keep people safe or catch people who are breaking the rules, they don’t have to share that information. They also don’t have to share anything that might stop someone from having a fair trial.

Section 150 of the Crown Entities Act 2004 talks more about the yearly report the EPA has to do.

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or “The court can make someone who broke the law pay for the costs of catching and proving they did something wrong.”
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Part 12A Enforcement functions of EPA

343KAdditional reporting requirements

  1. The annual report of the EPA under section 150 of the Crown Entities Act 2004 must include information about the performance of the EPA’s enforcement functions, including the number and type of enforcement actions executed by the EPA.

  2. The EPA is not required to provide information under subsection (1) that would prejudice the maintenance of law, including the prevention, investigation, or detection of offences, or the right to a fair trial.

Notes
  • Section 343K: inserted, on , by section 96 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 30).