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 1 applicant as the company's constitution.

  (2) Without limiting subsection (1), 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.