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Companies Office 2009 Archive
Infringement Notices - Financial Reporting Act 1993
The Financial Reporting Amendment Act 2006 introduced various amendments to the Financial Reporting Act 1993 (FRA). One of the amendments provides the Registrar of Companies (the Registrar) with the option of issuing an infringement notice to each director of a company that has failed to meet its filing obligations regarding financial statements.
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Follow us online
The Companies Office is constantly on the look-out for new and improved ways to communicate.
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Annual Returns must be filed electronically
The Companies Office no longer distributes paper annual returns to companies in their annual return filing month.
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New mobile search services released in response to business demand
The Companies Office has announced the addition of two new mobile search services to compliment the existing Register search facility.
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Keeping you informed with public notices online
Viewing the Companies Office public notices online is a great way of keeping up with those companies due to be removed from the Register and those about to be restored.
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New Business Industry Description and Code Search available online
The Companies Office is introducing a search engine that will allow clients to search using keywords for their Business Industry Description and corresponding Business Industry Code (BIC).
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Companies Office best business information website for 2008
The Companies Office website has ranked number one in the Hitwise ‘Business and Finance – Business Information’ category for 2008.
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New online validation service for Company Extracts and Certificates of Incorporation
The Companies Office has added validation numbers to Company Extracts and Certificates of Incorporation that are requested by selecting the ‘Email Extract’ or ‘Email Certificate’ button on the company details page.
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Five things to ensure your financial statements are accepted
The Companies Office regularly rejects up to 20% of Financial Statements received. This guide highlights our top five rejection reasons and hopes to provide you with the information you need to get it right first time.
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Amended constitutions released
The Auckland District Law Society (ADLS Inc) and digital publisher CCH have recently reviewed and amended the constitutions they provide via the Companies Office.
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Small Business Advisory Group members sought
If you are a small to medium-sized business and want to influence government policy, now is your chance.
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Update your company address details
For various reasons the Registrar of Companies may be required to deliver correspondence to either a Company’s Registered Office Address, Address for Service or Address for Communication. For this reason it is essential that the company address details held on the Companies Register (the Register) are accurate.
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Trusts as shareholders
A trust cannot hold shares in a company.
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New feature coming soon for conducting a PPSR search via the Companies Office
When conducting a PPSR search via the Companies Office, you may have found, that you can currently only print or email one financing statement at a time from the search results screen.
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Blog launched by the Companies Office
The Companies Office has launched a blog to provide a platform for clients to share information, advice and contribute to the development of new services.
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Annual Returns filed by companies to incorporate NZ Post address standards
As part of this year’s Annual Return you will be required to update all directors’ addresses to meet new address standards introduced by New Zealand Post. This will aid the Registrar in ensuring that mail will be sent to a valid delivery address.
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Adjustment to the employee preferential claim figure under the Companies Act 1993 and the Insolvency Act 2006
Insolvency law provides all creditors with some measure of equality in order to avoid destructive fights between creditors and wasteful races to courts to recuperate their debts.
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Companies Office key data
The Companies Office has released a report with key statistics including the last financial year (July 2008 to June 2009).
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Review of Industrial & Provident Societies
In preparation for the introduction of the new registry IT-system Enterprise, the Registrar of Industrial and Provident Societies (“the Registrar”) is conducting a review of the Industrial and Provident Societies register.
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New Zealand ranked top in the world for ease of starting a business
The World Bank Doing Business indicators for 2009 have been released and New Zealand is now ranked number one in the world for ease of Starting a Business.
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Adjustment to the employee preferential claim figure under the Companies Act 1993 and the Insolvency Act 2006
The adjusted employee preferential threshold amount came into effect on 25 September 2009.
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New IT in the works for Companies Office
The Companies Office is developing a new IT platform that will improve our services for all our registers, including companies, the new financial service providers register and our other corporate entity registers such as incorporated societies.
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Financial Service Providers Register (FSPR) to be released in May 2010
The Financial Service Providers Register (FSPR) is scheduled to go live in May 2010.
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Christmas holiday hours and services
The Companies Office phone, web-support services and registration processing are open until 5pm Thursday, 24 December 2009. We will re-open from 8.30am Tuesday, 5 January 2010.
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Kingdom of Tonga – fully electronic Companies Office launch
The New Zealand Companies Office has assisted the Companies Office of the Kingdom of Tonga in establishing its electronic register.
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Christmas holiday hours and services
Societies and Trusts phone, web-support services and registration processing are open until 5pm Thursday, 24 December 2009. We will re-open from 8.30am Tuesday, 5 January 2010.
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Christmas holiday hours and services
Retirement Villages phone, web-support services and registration processing will close at 5.00pm Thursday, 24 December and reopen at 8.30am Tuesday, 5 January 2010.
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