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Official Information
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
includes any information held outside the Cook Islands by any
branch or post of –
(i)
a Ministry; or
(ii)
an organisation; and
in relation to information held by the Ministry of Justice, includes
information held by the Rules Committee established by section 102
of the Judicature Act 1980-81; and
in relation to information held by the University of the South
Pacific, includes only information held by –
(i)
any full-time member of the academic staff of the University
in the Cook Islands; or
(ii)
any other full-time officer or employee of the University in
the Cook Islands; or
(iii) any examiner, assessor, or moderator in the Cook Islands in
any subject or examination taught or conducted by the
University in the Cook Islands; but
does not include information contained in –
(i)
library or museum material made or acquired and preserved
solely for reference or exhibition purposes; or
(ii)
material placed in the National Library by or on behalf of
persons other than Ministers of the Crown in their official
capacity or Ministries; and
does not include information which is held by a Ministry, Minister
of the Crown, or organisation solely as an agent or for the sole
purpose of safe custody and which is so held on behalf of a person
other than a Ministry or a Minister of the Crown in his or her official
capacity or an organisation; and
does not include evidence given or submissions made to (i)
a commission of inquiry appointed by an Order in Executive
Council made under the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1966;
or
(ii)
a commission of inquiry or board of inquiry or court of
inquiry or committee of inquiry appointed pursuant to, and
not by, any provision of an Act to inquire into a specified
matter; and
does not include information contained in any correspondence or
communication which has taken place between the office of the
Ombudsman and any Ministry or Minister of the Crown or
organisation and which relates to an investigation conducted by an
Ombudsman under this Act or under the Ombudsman Act 1984,
other than information that came into existence before the
commencement of that investigation;
“Ombudsman” means the Ombudsman holding office under the
Ombudsman Act 1984;
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