• New Zealand Government Web Standards 2.0

• New Zealand Government Web Standards 1.0
  • » 1. Images
  • » 2. Colour
  • » 3. Site Markup
  • » 4. Special Purpose Documents
  • » 5. Writing Content
  • » 6. Site Content
    • 6.1 Agency sites provide publicly available reports
    • 6.2 Agency sites provide consultation documents
    • 6.3 Agency sites provide press notices from the agency
    • 6.4 Agency sites provide mandatory email addresses
    • Recommendation 6.1.9 Media releases and consultation documents available as an RSS feed
    • 6.5 Superseded material is marked as superseded
    • 6.6 Paid advertising not hosted on a site
    • Recommendation 6.1.2 Paper-based forms provided by an agency are made available on its web site
    • Recommendation 6.1.3 Agency sites provide contact details for specific policy or services
    • Recommendation 6.1.5 Avoid the usage of underscores in URLs
    • Recommendation 6.1.6 Discovery-level URLs are descriptive and less than 50 characters long
    • Recommendation 6.1.7 Plan in place to ensure material on the website is accurate and up to date
    • Recommendation 6.1.8 Disclaiming content
    • Recommendation 6.1.9 Media releases and consultation documents available as an RSS feed
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  • » 17. Archiving
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  • » 19. Data Tracking
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  • » 31. Operational
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6.2 Agency sites provide consultation documents

The Standard

6.2 Agencies provide consultation documents on their web site(s). Refer to your communications department, legal teams or representative to determine what these documents are for your agency.

Guide to this standard

• Consultation links on the home page should be labelled "Currently Consulting on..." for consistency across government.
• The National Library also keeps a record of documents agency sites have made public.
• The National Library attempts to identify and capture these documents themselves. However, to assist the National Library with this process, agencies are encouraged to lodge a copy of such documents with the National Library.

Rationale for this standard

One of the principal foundations of the purpose for the New Zealand Web Standards is to provide economical and equitable access to information. This means that the NZ Government makes all public information available where feasible.