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Availability
i Government departments should make information available easily, widely and equitably to the people of New Zealand;
Coverage
ii Government departments should make the following information available on an increasingly electronic basis:
Pricing
iii For pricing purposes:
Free dissemination of Government-held information is appropriate where:
Pricing to recover the cost of dissemination is appropriate where:
Pricing to recover the cost of transformation is appropriate where:
Pricing to recover the full costs of information production and dissemination are appropriate where:
Ownership
iv Government held information, created or collected by any person employed or engaged by the Crown is a strategic resource available to the Government for public purposes, ie on behalf of the public;
Stewardship
v Government departments are stewards of Government held information, whose responsibility is to exercise and implement good information management;
Collection
vi Government departments should only collect information for specified public business or legislative purposes;
Copyright
vii Information created by departments is subject to Crown copyright but where wide dissemination is desirable, the Crown should permit use of its copyright subject to acknowledgement of source;
Preservation
viii Government held information should be preserved only where a public business need, legislative or policy requirement, or a historical or archival reason exists;
Quality
ix Government held information should be accurate, relevant, timely, consistent and collected without bias so that it is fit for the purposes to which it is put;
Integrity
x The integrity of Government held information will be achieved when:
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