29Access to other documents given to Secretary

1. On a written request for the purpose made to the responsible department, any person may, without charge, during ordinary office hours inspect and, on payment of the charge (if any) fixed by an officer or employee of the responsible department under section 30, obtain a copy of any document (for example, a pathologist's report on a post-mortem) that—

2. is not a certificate or notice specified in section 28(1); and
3. was given by a coroner to the Secretary under this Act.

4. The availability of documents requested under subsection (1) must be determined,—

5. in the case of a request made by the individual to whom the information concerned relates, in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020; or
6. in any other case, in accordance with the Official Information Act 1982.

7. Nothing in this section authorises—

8. the publication of a document contrary to a prohibition under section 74 (which empowers the coroner to prohibit the making public of evidence given at any part of inquiry proceedings); or
9. the publication of any information in contravention of section 71 (which relates to restrictions on the making public of details of self-inflicted deaths).

10. Subsections (1) to (3) apply to the following (but, for the purposes of this subsection, the references in subsection (3) to sections 74 and 71 must be read as references to sections 25(2)(b) and 29 of the Coroners Act 1988 respectively):

11. depositions transmitted to the Secretary under section 24(2) of the Coroners Act 1951; and
12. any document that is not a certificate or notice specified in section 28(3) but was given by a coroner to the Secretary under the Coroners Act 1988.