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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Panel consideration of substantive application - EPA powers and duties relating to substantive application

91: Information held by relevant administering agencies and local authorities that is sensitive to iwi or hapū

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“Protecting private information about Māori groups”

If a government agency or local authority has sensitive information about an iwi or hapū that they’ve agreed to keep private, they must keep it secret. Before they share any of this information with others, they need to talk to the iwi or hapū first. They’ll discuss if it’s okay to share the information, what parts can be shared, how to share it, and who can see it. This rule is important even though there’s another rule that says they should share information.

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Part 2 Fast-track approvals process
Panel consideration of substantive application: EPA powers and duties relating to substantive application

91Information held by relevant administering agencies and local authorities that is sensitive to iwi or hapū

  1. Despite section 90, if information sensitive to an iwi or a hapū is held by a relevant administering agency or local authority under an agreement of confidentiality, the agency or local authority must—

  2. maintain that confidentiality; and
    1. before the information is disclosed under section 90, discuss with the iwi or hapū whether that information or any part of it may be disclosed and, if so, how it may be disclosed and to whom.