New Zealand Legislation: Acts

12 Application for registration

• (1) An application for registration of a company under this Act must be sent or delivered to the Registrar, and must be—

  • (a) In the prescribed form; and

  • (b) Signed by each applicant; and

  • (c) Accompanied by a document in the prescribed form signed by every person named as a director, containing his or her consent to be a director and a certificate that he or she is not disqualified from being appointed or holding office as a director of a company; and

  • (d) Accompanied by—

    • (i) A document in the prescribed form signed by every person named as a shareholder, or by an agent of that person authorised in writing, containing his or her consent to being a shareholder and to taking the class and number of shares specified in the document; and

    • (ii) If the document has been signed by an agent, the instrument authorising the agent to sign it; and

  • (e) Accompanied by a notice reserving a name for the proposed company; and

  • (f) If the proposed company is to have a constitution, accompanied by a document certified by at least one applicant as the company's constitution.

  (2) Without limiting subsection (1) of this section, the application must state—

  • (a) The full name and address of each applicant; and

  • (b) The full name and residential address of every director of the proposed company; and

  • (c) The full name and residential address of every shareholder of the proposed company, and the number of shares to be issued to every shareholder; and

  • (d) The registered office of the proposed company; and

  • (e) The address for service of the proposed company.