Hon James Shaw

 

Nll'l er lor Climate Chang: er'ltj mo To 0 Te filluamnoi
(ii stamens; Minita Tetaurango
Associate vi ct Finance Hoe Mlniia Tzilm vim

 

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Dear--

Tharik you for your email of 8 May 2019 requesting the followmg under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act)'

all advice and communications on the drafting of [clause 10] of the Climate
Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill. I'm particularly interested in
seeing the Justification for the amendment and the circumstances in which it is
believed it might apply,

As doubt there is a formal document on this, expect this request will have to
look at emails,

Clause 10 of the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill requires the
Commission to keep lnloimation confidential and allows otherWlse confidential information to
be disclosed to the Commission. The intent of the Government was that, for the purpose of
accessing relevant information under the CCRA, the Commission should be treated as
though it were an administrating agency and be subiect to equivalent obligations of
confidentiality.

This provision may be relevant for the Commission in providing advice about the settings of
the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) Cabinet has agreed that this will be
a regular function of the Commission. it will be brought into operation by proposed legislative
changes to improve the scheme

There have been two documents identified in scope of your request, as listed in the attached
table. As the information in those documents is now publicly available, I am refusing your
request under section istd) of the Act (for the reason that the information is or soon will be
publicly available) References and links to the relevant information can be found in the table.

The Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill is currently before
Parliament, and the Environment select committee has called for submissions. Anyone with
an interest in the content of the Bill is encouraged to share their thoughts with the select
committee You can find out more or make a submission at the Parliament website

httos 
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Office of the Ombudsman of

my dealsion to withhold information relating to this request, in accordance with section 28(3)
of the Act The relevant details can be found on their website at:

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Please contact my office if you have any queries about this response.

Yours s?ncerely

A

Hon James Shaw
Minister for Climate Change

List of documents

Titles and numbering are given as they appear in the final versions of documents.

 

 

 

 

 

Docu Document Content Decisions OIA sections applied

ment date

no.

through Cabinet paper: This document has been, or
17 December Proposed Climate soon will be, proactively
2018 Change Bill: released on the Ministry for the
paragraphs 179?181; Enwronment websrte . 
241 
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recommendations 112-
113
2 6 March 2019 Draft versions Of bill: Refused 18(d)

 

through
3 May 2019

 

Climate Change
Response (Zero
Carbon) Amendment
Bill:

clause 10;

clause-by-clause
analysis (clause 10)

 

 

The Bill is available on the New
Zealand Legislation website


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