New Zealand Acts

VICTIMS' RIGHTS ACT 2002 - SECT 13

13 Limits on duties to give information under sections 11 and 12

1 Nothing in section 11 or section 12 requires any person to give information if good reason for withholding the information would exist under any of sections 6, 7, and 9 of the Official Information Act 1982 , if a request for that information were made under that Act.

2 An example of a case where good reason of that kind for withholding information would exist is where the giving of the information would be likely to prejudice the maintenance of the law, including the prevention, investigation, and detection of offences, and the right to a fair trial.

3 Nothing in section 11 or section 12 affects any enactment, rule of law, or order or direction of a court that prohibits or restricts the making available of information of a kind referred to in section 11 or section 12 (for example, one forbidding the publication, in a report or account of proceedings in respect of an offence, of the name of, or of any particulars likely to identify, a participant in the proceedings).