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    • Companies - an introduction
      • What is a company?
      • Why start up a company?
      • Choosing your company name
      • What is a constitution?
      • Company directors
        • How many directors should a company have?
        • Who cannot be a director?
        • Obligations as a director
        • Update director details on the register
        • Case study | Directorships
        • Institute of Directors in New Zealand (Inc)
      • Shares and shareholders
        • How many shares should a company have?
        • How are shares valued?
        • Issuing shares
        • Rights of shareholders
        • How much do shareholders pay for their shares?
        • When is payment required for shares?
        • Distributions to shareholders
        • Shareholder liability on receivership or liquidation
        • Case study: number of shares
      • Company addresses
      • Maintaining and keeping records
      • Overseas companies
        • Managing an overseas company in New Zealand
        • Which overseas companies must register in New Zealand?
        • Other laws to consider when registering an overseas company
        • Australian overseas companies
    • Starting a company
      • Reserving a company name
      • Applying to incorporate a company
        • Company addresses
        • Directors
        • Shares & shareholders
        • Constitution (optional)
          • Third party constitutions
          • Write your own constitution
        • Tax registration (recommended)
          • Business industry code (BIC)
          • IRD registration
          • GST registration
          • Registered Inland Revenue Tax Agents (optional)
          • Inland Revenue nominee details (optional)
        • Review
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      • How we process your application
      • Director and shareholder consents
        • Notes on submitting your consents
        • Processing your consents
      • What happens next?
      • FAQs
        • Constitution (optional)
        • Third party constitutions
        • Notes on submitting your consents
        • Can an unincorporated trust be a shareholder?
        • Can you change details you have already submitted?
        • How do you know when your new company is incorporated?
        • What should you do if your new company is not trading?
        • Why you may get an error entering an address
    • Reserving a company name
      • Check the name is available
        • Names that cannot be reserved
        • Names that contravene other legislation
      • Apply for your name online
      • How we process your application
      • What happens next?
      • Extending your name reservation
      • Transferring a name reservation
      • Withdrawing a name reservation
      • FAQs
        • Check the name is available
        • How do you reserve a name again if your original approval has expired?
    • Company Authority
      • Who can have Company Authority?
      • How do you get Company Authority?
      • Who can grant or revoke authority?
      • How do you grant or revoke authority?
      • What happened to company keys?
    • Updating company details
      • Company addresses
        • Updating addresses of overseas companies
      • Director details
        • First steps to updating director details online
        • Appointments of new directors
          • Step 1 | Notify the appointment online
          • Step 2 | Return the consent form
          • Processing your consent form
        • Director address changes
        • Director's change of name
        • Directors ceasing to hold office
        • FAQs
          • Key facts about registering director appointments
          • Can you correct details for a director's appointment?
          • How do you withdraw a director's appointment?
          • What is an alternate director and how do you appoint one?
        • Updating director details for overseas companies
      • Shares & shareholders
        • Increasing or decreasing shares
        • Adding, removing and managing shareholders
        • Adding, removing and managing share allocations
      • Change company name
        • Change the name of an overseas company
          • Change the name of an Australian overseas company
          • Change the name of an overseas company (other jurisdictions)
      • Constitution
        • Updating constitutions of overseas companies
      • Additional company information
      • Financial reporting
        • A guide for small business
        • New Zealand companies
          • Registering your financial statements
          • New Zealand companies registered as foreign companies in Australia
          • Frequently asked questions
        • Financial reporting for overseas companies
          • Registering your financial statements
          • Frequently asked questions
        • Issuers
          • Registering your financial statements
          • Frequently asked questions
        • Registering your financial statements
          • File your financial statements online
          • File using paper forms
          • Non-active declaration
            • Filing your non-active declaration
            • FAQs
        • Financial Reporting Amendment Act 2006
        • Infringement notices
        • Changing your balance date
        • How does Section 19 work?
        • Frequently asked questions
        • Financial reporting act forms
          • File financial statements with ASIC
        • Financial reporting and securities fees
      • Amalgamations
        • Long form amalgamations
        • Short form amalgamations
        • Notes relevant to both forms of amalgamation
        • How to apply
      • Registering prospectus documents
        • Register securities documents online
      • Lodging other documents online
      • Corrections to the register
    • Filing an annual return
      • Annual return reminders
      • How to file
        • Step 1 - Search for the company
        • Step 2 - Get Company Authority
        • Step 3 - File the annual return
      • Can you get a time extension to file an annual return?
      • Annual returns for overseas companies
    • Receiverships, liquidations and voluntary administrations
      • Differences between receivership and liquidation
      • Differences between voluntary liquidation and Court ordered liquidation
      • Differences between receivership and voluntary administration
      • Differences between liquidation and bankruptcy
      • Does voluntary administration affect a company in receivership?
    • Removals and restorations
      • Removal from the register
        • Before closing down
        • When annual returns are not filed
        • Requesting a removal
        • At the completion of a liquidation
        • As a result of an amalgamation
        • How we process company removals
        • Objecting to a removal
          • How to object
          • What are the grounds for objecting?
          • How we process your objection
          • Withdraw an existing objection
          • If the period for lodging objections has passed
        • Overseas companies
      • Objecting to a removal
      • Restoring a company
        • New Zealand companies
          • How to apply
          • FAQs
        • Overseas companies
      • Business in difficulty?
        • My company is in financial trouble... what are my options?
        • Liquidation
          • The start of a liquidation
          • What happens during a liquidation?
          • How could liquidation affect you?
          • The completion of a liquidation
          • Liquidation and Limited Partnerships
          • The liquidation life cycle
        • Receivership
          • The start of a receivership
          • What happens during a receivership?
          • How could receivership affect you?
          • The completion of a receivership
          • Receivership life cycle
        • Voluntary administration
          • The start of a voluntary administration
          • What happens during a voluntary administration?
          • How could a voluntary administration affect you?
          • Forms for New Zealand companies
          • The completion of a voluntary administration
          • The voluntary administration life cycle
    • Other registers
      • Building societies
        • Incorporation information
        • Filing obligations after incorporation
        • Removing a building society from the register
      • Charitable trusts
      • Contributory mortgage brokers
      • Co-operative organisations
      • Farmers' Mutual Group
      • Friendly societies and credit unions
        • Friendly societies
        • Credit unions
        • Forms for friendly societies and credit unions
        • Friendly society and credit union fees
        • Annual reports of the Registrar
      • Incorporated societies
      • Industrial and provident societies
        • Registering a society
        • Maintaining a society
        • Closing a society
        • Forms for industrial and provident societies
      • Limited partnerships
        • Introducing Limited Partnerships
        • Register a Limited Partnership
          • Guidelines where overseas partners are involved
        • Register an Overseas Limited Partnership
        • Maintain a Limited Partnership
          • Filing your annual return
          • Change of Limited Partnership addresses
          • Change of partner details
          • Change of name
          • Restore a Limited Partnership to the register
          • Maintain an Overseas Limited Partnership
        • Termination of a Limited Partnership
          • Request for deregistration
          • Voluntary administration
          • Liquidation
          • Overseas Limited Partnership ceasing to carry on business in New Zealand
          • Deregistration of an Overseas Limited Partnership
          • Liquidation of an Overseas Limited Partnership
        • Limited Partnership FAQs
          • What is a Limited Partnership?
          • Limited Partnership v Overseas Limited Partnership
          • What activities can Limited Partners engage in?
          • How is the privacy of limited partners protected?
          • What is a partnership agreement?
          • FAQs on General and Limited Partners
        • Forms
          • Forms for Overseas Limited Partnerships
          • Forms for Limited Partnerships
        • Limited Partnerships fees
      • New Zealand Law Society
      • New Zealand Society of Conveyancers
      • Overseas issuers
        • Securities (Mutual Recognition of Securities Offerings - Australia) Regulations 2008 ('MRS')
          • Frequently asked questions for Australian issuers
          • Frequently asked questions for New Zealand issuers
          • Mutual recognition of securities offerings forms
      • Participatory securities
      • Retirement villages
        • News & updates
          • Retirement village fees have changed
          • Regular maintenance window now on Sundays
          • Annual returns
          • Replacement Code of Practice
        • How to register a retirement village
          • What is a retirement village?
          • How do you register?
          • How do you calculate the registration fees
          • Statutory supervisors
          • What documentation will you need?
            • Frequently asked questions about occupation right agreements
          • Where residential units are located apart from village facilities
        • Statutory supervisors
          • List of statutory supervisors
          • Applications for exemption from appointing a statutory supervisor
        • How to maintain a retirement village registration
        • Information for residents
          • What does the Retirement Villages Act 2003 mean for residents?
          • What happens if a village does not comply with the Act?
        • Forms for retirement villages
        • Retirement village fees
        • Where can you get more information?
      • Superannuation schemes
      • Unit trusts
        • Approved trustees
        • Approved sureties
        • Registration information
        • Other filing obligations
        • Removing a unit trust from the register
        • Unit trusts fees
      • Auditors Register
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        • Some users of IE8 cannot access the igovt logon service
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      • Search for a company
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      • Other overseas company forms
      • Financial reporting act forms
      • Forms for Company Authority
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    • Fees
      • Fees for companies
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      • Refund policy
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    • Doing business in New Zealand
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      • Do business in Australia
        • Company searching and registration in Australia
        • Trans-Tasman regulatory alignment moves a step closer
      • Company registers worldwide
        • Websites of overseas companies offices
        • Corporate Registers Forum
        • Commonwealth Association of Public Administration and Management (CAPAM)
        • International Association of Commercial Administrators (IACA)
        • European Commerce Registers' Forum (ECRF)
        • The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
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      • Latest public notices
      • Companies Office statistics updated
      • A new website for the Ministry of Economic Development
      • Companies Office technical support
      • ASIC Connect
      • Changes to the 'Company Details' screen
      • New Ministry to be created
      • Auditors Register is live
      • Three ways to get the most out of the PPSR
    • Public notices
      • Latest public notices
      • How we advertise public notices
      • Company removals notices
        • Current removals notices
        • Company removals notice dated 26 April 2012 - s318(1)(d)
        • Company removals notice dated 10 May 2012 - s318(1)(d)
        • Company removals notice dated 10 May 2012 - s318(1)(c)
        • Company removals notice dated 10 May 2012 - s318(1)(f)
        • Company removals notice dated 17 May 2012 - s318(1)(b)
      • Company restoration notices
        • Current restoration notices
        • Company restoration notice published 19 April 2012
        • Company restoration notice published 3 May 2012
        • Company restoration notice published 17 May 2012
      • Other public notices
        • Notice of intention to correct the Limited Partnerships Register dated 3 May 2012
        • Notice of intention to correct the Companies Register dated 3 May 2012
        • Limited Partnerships dergistration notice dated 17 May 2012
        • Notice of intention to correct the Companies Register dated 17 May 2012
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    • Start a company
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      • Incorporate a NZ company
      • Incorporate or register another type of company
        • Incorporate a NZ company (Co-operative)
        • Incorporate a NZ company (Unlimited)
        • Register an Australian overseas company
        • Register an overseas company (other)
      • Upload consents
    • Company Authority
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    • Annual returns
      • File an annual return
    • Update company details
      • Company addresses
      • Directors - add, remove, update
      • Upload consents
      • Shares & shareholders
      • Change company name
      • Constitution
      • File financial statements
      • Register securities documents online
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    • Removals and restorations
      • Apply for deregistration
      • Object to a company removal
      • Withdraw an existing objection
      • Apply for company restoration
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      • Receiverships & Liquidations
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  • About us
    • The Registrar of Companies
    • Enterprise
      • What is Enterprise all about?
      • Important changes
      • Top new Companies Office services
    • Legislation
    • Enforcement
      • Investigations and prosecutions
        • Results
          • 2011
            • Gary Donald Ashley
            • Donald John Baker
            • Malcolm William Brown
            • Stephen Peter Crow
            • Alex Dittmer
            • Bronwyn Dittmer
            • Emil Drago Filipchich
            • Jalendra Mani Gounder
            • Martin Roy Hawke
            • HD Finance Limited
            • David Hughey
            • Joung Oh Lee
            • Neil Malcolm Livingston
            • Warren Eric Lynch
            • Andrew Stuart Mackie
            • Janice Mackie
            • David Lawrence Marsters
            • Daniel Middleton
            • Midland Funds Management Limited
            • Craig Grant Scott Nisbet
            • Stephen John Papps
            • Brian Joseph Scandlyn
            • Philip Noel Pedlar
            • Andrew Richard Russell
            • Graham John Strang
            • Graeme Pillidge
            • Phillip Raymond Telfer
            • Vijay Sen Sethi
            • Mowat Earle Gray Ussher
            • Rhys Selwyn Armstrong
            • Mukesh Chand
            • Gary George Havill
            • Nelson Graham Hughes
            • Ian Charles Schuler
            • Semble Cars Limited
            • Patricia Ann Shoemark
            • Victory Enterprises Limited
          • Older results
            • 2010
              • Steven Ansley (also known as Alex Hong)
              • Nicholas Birch
              • Annette May Black
              • Anthony Walpole Bowden (Five Star Finance)
              • Barry William Samuel Brown-Rapana
              • Mark Ronald Bryers
              • Neville Ian Cant
              • John Malcolm Carr
              • Walter Cavendish
              • Terry Lung Chan
              • Javed Oqbaal Chaundhry
              • Graeme Edward Cowan
              • Graham Murray Cleaver
              • CL NZ Trading Limited
              • Brett Eric Collins
              • Combined Financial Services Limited
              • Ross Dallimore
              • Ony Davies (aka Annie Davies)
              • Mark Robert Dawson
              • Tayne Maitland Derriman
              • Reece Walters Deslaurier
              • Zhang Do
              • Michael Paul Donovan
              • Finance Brokers Funds Management Limited
              • Jerry Gounder (aka Tamendra Gounder)
              • Grant Ngaere Harris
              • Michael Thomas Hart
              • David Ian Henderson
              • Andrew Nicolas Holdgate
              • Donald Clifton Jacobs
              • Investment Management Limited
              • Otis Johnson
              • John Joseph (also known as Salam Mansoor Abdelabbus Al-Bawi)
              • Nicholas George Kirk (Five Star Finance)
              • Jeffrey Douglas Knowles
              • Richard Michael Lascelles
              • Michael James Lodge
              • Henry Luapo
              • Marcus MacDonald (Five Star Finance)
              • Anthony Lawrence Mallon
              • Melric International Limited
              • Irene Jayne Page (formerly Irene Joan Webster)
              • Benjamin James Papa
              • Aaron Richard Playle
              • Richard Allen Potter
              • Lynne Pryor
              • Neville Leslie Sage
              • James Chor Kiam Tay
              • Christine Torr
              • Malcolm David Shearer
              • Joseph Tuala
              • Lu Zhang (SP Trading)
            • 1 July 2009 - 31 December 2009
            • 1 July 2008 - 30 June 2009
            • 1 July 2007 - 30 June 2008
            • 1 July 2006 - 30 June 2007
            • 1 July 2005 - 30 June 2006
            • 1 July 2004 - 30 June 2005
          • 2012
            • 2012 convictions
            • Timothy Mark Brownie
            • Darren Geoffrey Hogg
            • Campbell Shorland Spencer
      • Banned directors
      • FAQs
        • The complaint process
        • My responsibilities
        • Banned directors
        • Common terms
        • Legislation
        • Contact information
      • News and updates
        • Banned director caught managing company
        • Changes to prohibition of company directors
        • Bridgecorp Ltd and directors prosecuted
        • Jason and Megan Peters banned from acting as directors
        • Five Star Finance directors banned
        • Prohibition from acting in the management of companies
        • Bridgecorp directors banned
        • Further charges laid against Bridgecorp directors
        • Five Star Finance Directors Prosecuted
      • Contact the National Enforcement Unit
    • Strategic plans & annual reports
      • Companies Office Profile 2009-2010
      • Archived reports and business plans
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    • Awards
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    • ISO 9001:2008 Certification
    • MED Vacancies
  • Auditors Register
    • Searching the Auditors Register
    • Registration and licensing FAQs