Summary: The complainant asked the Ministry of Justice (the -public authority-) to provide information relating to an offender-s criminal convictions. The public authority initially neither confirmed nor denied (-NCND-) holding any information citing the exemption at section 40(5) (personal information) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the -Act-). During the Commissioner-s investigation the public authority introduced section 12 (the -appropriate limit-). Following further inquiries it subsequently claimed that it did not in fact hold any of the requested information. The Commissioner-s decision is that, on the balance of probabilities, the public authority holds no information. The complaint is not upheld.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 1 - Complaint Not upheld