When the Commission wants to make an integrity code, they must talk to lots of people about it first. You might be one of the people they talk to, or it might be a group you are part of, like a sports team or a community organisation. They have to consult with participants, national sporting organisations, national recreation organisations, Māori, and other relevant stakeholders, including Pacific peoples, disabled people, children and young people, women and girls, and rainbow people, as well as the Privacy Commissioner.

The Commission also has to think about whether they really need to talk to all these people if they are just making a small change to an integrity code. If they are just fixing a tiny mistake, or making a very small change, they might not need to consult with everyone.

If the change is very minor, the Commission can decide not to consult with all the stakeholders, but they have to be satisfied that the amendment is only correcting a minor error or is otherwise of a minor nature.