For directors or shareholders

Using the Director Search tool you can determine whether an individual is, or has been, a director of a company.  You can also see whether a person is a disqualified director.  By simply changing some settings you can also search for shareholders.

There are two search options available.

1. Quick search  

Click on the Search the register tab in the top right hand corner of the screen. 

By default you search by Company name.  To refine your search click on Options first and select the type of search you wish to conduct.  The choices are: 

• Entities (which will search for companies)
• Directors
• Shareholders
• Disqualified Directors or
• Directors/Shareholders.

To view instant results on screen just begin entering your search criteria into the 'Search' field.  For a director search this might be the director's surname.

A list of possible matches will be displayed on screen and you can click on any one of these results to view the details of that company.

Click on the SEARCH >> button to display the complete search results for your search criteria.

2. Advanced Search

From the Do It Now menu choose Advanced Search. 

Under 'Enter your search criteria' select the option Search for Directors and Shareholders.  Now you can customise your search in several ways.

Begin by specifying whether you want to search for:

• Just directors, or
• Just shareholders, or
• Director & shareholders, or
• Only disqualified directors

You can further customise your search by specifying:

• Director status ¹
  • All statuses (default) Note | All statuses will include listings even if the director has resigned or has been disqualified, or
  • current 
• Entity type
  • All types (default) or
  • choose specific types of interest - for example, only New Zealand companies (limited, unlimited, or co-operative) 
• Entity status
  • All statuses (default) or
  • choose specific statuses of interest (for example, struck off companies).
• Address keywords - To refine your search to include only specific address keywords (such as a street name, city, postal code, or country)

¹ Note | There are no options available for specifying the Shareholder status.