Law Commission Issues Paper We are most grateful to the Privacy commissioner, Marie Shroff, and blair Stewart, Deputy commissioner, for their time and attention to a draft of this issues paper, and for their very helpful comments. We also appreciate the useful comments from Sarah Kerkin, Senior Adviser, Policy and law, of the Ministry of Justice. We thank our peer reviewer, Professor Paul Roth, and John Edwards and Wayne Wilson, for their reviews of a draft of this paper, which has benefited from their comments. We are grateful to all those individuals and agencies who have written to us or met with us to discuss the issues involved in this reference. Finally, we thank all those agencies who are holders of public registers and who took the time and trouble to respond to a law commission questionnaire of March 2007. their responses provided us with a clear picture of their registers, their uses and some concerns, and have informed our discussion in this paper. they are: Auckland Regional c c  adastral Surveyors c arterton District c c  hiropractic b oard c ommercial Fisheries Services Department of b uilding and Housing Department of Internal Affairs Dieticians b oard Dunedin c ity c ouncil Electoral Enrolment Environmental Risk Management Authority Institute of Professional Engineers of New Zealand Institute of Registered Music l and Information New Zealand l and t  ransport New Zealand New Zealand Food Safety Authority Medical c ouncil of New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development Ministry of Justice (Maori aCknowLedgmenTs