New Zealand Business Number (Primary Business Data) Order 2018
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New Zealand Business Number (Primary Business Data) Order 2018
Patsy Reddy, Governor-General
Order in Council
At Wellington this 17th day of December 2018
Present:
The Right Hon Jacinda Ardern presiding in Council
This order is made under section 22 of the New Zealand Business Number Act 2016 on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council and on the recommendation of the Minister for Small Business made in accordance with section 22(2) of that Act.
Order
1 Title
This order is the New Zealand Business Number (Primary Business Data) Order 2018.
2 Commencement
This order comes into force on 30 March 2019.
3 Schedules 3 and 4 of New Zealand Business Number Act 2016 replaced
Replace Schedules 3 and 4 of the New Zealand Business Number Act 2016 with the Schedules 3 and 4 set out in the Schedule of this order.
Schedule Schedules 3 and 4 of New Zealand Business Number Act 2016 replaced
Schedule 3 Public primary business data
ss 20(2)(a), 21, 22
Part 1 Public primary business data for corporate and public entities
Legal entity name
Trading name(s)
Registered address
Trading area(s)
NZBN
Kind of entity
Status
Industry classification
Director(s)
Owner(s)
Website
Part 2 Public primary business data for unincorporated entities
Trading area(s)
NZBN
Kind of entity
Status
Industry classification
Website
Schedule 4 Other primary business data
ss 21, 22
Part 1 Other primary business data for corporate and public entities
Phone number
Email address
Postal address
Address for service
Office address
Delivery address
Invoice address
GST number
Payment bank account number
Australian Business Number (ABN)
Part 2 Other primary business data for unincorporated entities
Legal entity name
Trading name(s)
Director(s)
Owner(s)
Phone number
Email address
Postal address
Address for service
Office address
Delivery address
Invoice address
GST number
Payment bank account number
Australian Business Number (ABN)
Michael Webster,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This order comes into force on 30 March 2019.
This order replaces the information that the New Zealand Business Number register—
must contain as the public primary business data for every NZBN entity. That information is set out in Schedule 3 of the New Zealand Business Number Act 2016 (the Act); and
may contain as other primary business data in various other circumstances (eg, if the entity elects to provide that information to the Registrar of New Zealand Business Numbers (the Registrar) or if the information is already available on a public register). That information is set out in Schedule 4 of the Act.
The main changes are that—
some information moves from Schedule 4 to Schedule 3, namely, industry classification and website information for all entities, and director and owner information for corporate and public entities:
some information is renamed (eg,
“location identifier”
is renamed“trading area(s)”
):some information is deleted (eg, about start dates, addresses, place of activity, Australian company number, and Australian service address):
some information is added to Schedule 4 (eg, about payment bank account number).
The purposes for which information is required is as follows:
| Information | Purpose | |
|---|---|---|
| Legal entity name | To enable the NZBN entity to be identified by its official (proper, legal) name | |
| Trading name(s) | To enable the NZBN entity to be identified by any other names it uses for business purposes | |
| Registered address | Where the NZBN entity is a company registered under the Companies Act 1993, or a limited partnership under the Limited Partnerships Act 2008, to record the address of the registered office of the company, or the limited partnership, consistent with the requirements of those Acts | |
| Trading area(s) | To identify the geographic areas where the NZBN entity routinely conducts, or is available to conduct, its business activities in New Zealand | |
| NZBN | To identify the NZBN allocated by the Registrar to the NZBN entity | |
| Kind of entity | To identify the kind of entity in terms of how different entities are described in the Act | |
| Status | To identify whether NZBN registration is current and any solvency issues | |
| Industry classification | To identify the class(es) of business activity undertaken by the NZBN entity using the New Zealand Government business industry classification (BIC) codes | |
| Director(s) | To identify the people who govern the NZBN entity and its finances | |
| Website | To identify the website address(es) of the NZBN entity’s public-facing websites (if any) | |
| Owner(s) | To identify the people, or other entities, who own the NZBN entity | |
| Phone number | To identify the contact phone numbers for the NZBN entity and the primary purpose of each number (if there is more than 1) | |
| Email address | To identify the email addresses for the NZBN entity and the primary purpose of each email address (if there is more than 1) | |
| Postal address | To identify the address that the NZBN entity uses to receive physical postal deliveries | |
| Address for service | To identify the NZBN entity’s physical address in New Zealand at which writs, summonses, notices, and other legal documents can be served (as appropriate) on the entity, its management and employees, and its director(s) or owner(s) | |
| Office address | To identify the location of the NZBN entity’s administrative headquarters | |
| Delivery address | To identify the primary physical address at which the NZBN entity wishes to receive physical deliveries of goods and other items that are not postal deliveries | |
| Invoice address | To identify the address the NZBN entity uses to receive deliveries of invoices | |
| GST number | To identify the entity’s GST number(s) (if any) | |
| Payment bank account number | To identify the primary bank account the NZBN entity uses to receive payments | |
| Australian Business Number (ABN) | To identify the NZBN entity’s ABN (if any) |
Date of notification in Gazette: 20 December 2018.
This order is administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.
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New Zealand Business Number (Primary Business Data) Order 2018
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