Information Act 2002

(1) Government information that discloses a person's identity or from which a person's identity is reasonably ascertainable is personal information.

(2) However, the government information is not personal information to the extent that:

(a) the person's identity is disclosed only in the context of having acted in an official capacity for a public sector organisation; and

(b) the government information discloses no other personal information about the person.

acted in an official capacity, in relation to a public sector organisation, means having exercised a power or performed a function as, or on behalf of, the organisation.