Fees and charges for official information requests (LGOIMA)
The table of fees and charges below for official information requests are from page 42 of the Tauranga City Council 2024-25 schedule of user fees and charges.
All fees in the schedule include GST and are effective from 1 July 2024. Council reserves the right to review any fees and charges at any time. Please check with Council for any updates.
If a fee or charge for a Council service is not specifically listed below, the charge or fee will be the total of the cost of materials, staff time providing the service, and GST.
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Charges
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| If the request is made by an identifiable natural person seeking access to any personal information about that person, then such requests are not subject to any charge.
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| Where repeated requests are made in respect of a common subject, in any period of up to 8 weeks, requests after the first shall be aggregated for charging purposes.
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Staff time
Time spent by staff searching for relevant material, abstracting, collating, copying, transcribing and supervising access, where the total time involved is in excess of one hour.
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$76.80 per hour for each chargeable hour or part thereof after the first hour.
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Photocopying
Copying or printing, on standard A4 or foolscap paper, where the total number of pages is in excess of 20 pages, will be charged for each page after the first 20 pages per page of
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$0.30 per page after the first 20 pages.
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All other charges Actual cost
All other charges incurred shall be fixed at an amount that recovers up to the actual costs involved. This will include:
- the provision of documents on computer disks
- the retrieval of information off-site
- reproducing a film, video or audio recording
- providing a copy of any map, plan or other document larger than foolscap size.
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Actual cost
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