{
  "slug": "nz-nzdf",
  "register": {
    "slug": "nz-nzdf",
    "name": "New Zealand Defence Force",
    "local_name": "Te Ope Kātua o Aotearoa",
    "abbr": "NZDF",
    "jurisdiction": "foreign",
    "state": null,
    "state_name": null,
    "country": "New Zealand",
    "country_code": "NZ",
    "category": "defense",
    "agency_type": "armed_forces",
    "parent": null,
    "parent_name": null,
    "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/nz-nzdf",
    "website": "https://www.nzdf.mil.nz",
    "reading_room": null,
    "subject_to_foia": true,
    "law": {
      "id": "nz-oia-1982",
      "citation": "1982 No 156",
      "statutory_days": 20,
      "business_days": true,
      "appeal_deadline_days": null
    },
    "intake": [
      {
        "channel": "email",
        "detail": "ministerialservices@nzdf.mil.nz",
        "label": "Ministerial Services (OIA)",
        "verified": true,
        "verification": "verified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      },
      {
        "channel": "portal",
        "detail": "https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre/official-information-requests/",
        "label": "OIA request page and form",
        "verified": true,
        "verification": "verified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      }
    ],
    "submission_readiness": null,
    "holdings": [
      "The declassified UFO files, 1952–2009 — about 2,000 pages released in December 2010",
      "Kaikoura lights (December 1978) reports and analysis",
      "Sighting correspondence from the public, RNZAF bases and pilots"
    ],
    "tips": [
      "The December 2010 release answered the standing question wholesale — ask for records created after it, or for the release itself.",
      "Ombudsman opinions are near-binding; cite one on comparable records if refused."
    ],
    "tracking": "OIA reference issued by Ministerial Services.",
    "confidence": "high",
    "source": "Hand-compiled international layer. Bodies and statutes are real; contact routes are inferred unless marked verified, and none has yet been proven by a delivered letter."
  },
  "scorecard": null,
  "components": [],
  "requests": []
}