Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 No 52
Current version for 20 January 2013 to date (accessed 24 May 2013 at 16:46)

75   Providing access by creating new record

(1)  An agency is not prevented from providing access in response to an access application to government information held by the agency by making and providing access to a new record of that information.
(2)  An agency’s obligation to provide access to government information in response to an access application does not require the agency to do any of the following:
(a)  make a new record of information held by the agency,
(b)  update or verify information held by the agency,
(c)  create new information, or produce a new record of information, by deduction, inference or calculation from information held by the agency or by any other use or application of information held by the agency.
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