Official Information Act requests

To make a request, please email oia@ea.govt.nz with specific details of the information you are after and your contact details.

Before making the request, please use the search function to check for the information carefully on this website or contact info@ea.govt.nz

We will respond to your request as soon as reasonably practicable and no later than 20 working days after we receive it.

In some cases, we may require an extension, see section 15A of the Official Information Act.

We may refuse or withhold certain information if there is conclusive, good, or administrative reason to do so, under the Official Information Act. If we need to do this, we will let you know why.

For more information, see sections 6, 7, 9 and 18 of the Official Information Act.

If you wish to follow up your request or are unhappy with our response, please email oia@ea.govt.nz in the first instance so that we can try to resolve the issue.

Alternatively, you have the right to seek a review of the response by the Office of the Ombudsman. The Ombudsman will decide whether to investigate and review our decision and they may make a recommendation to us.