This notice, which comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette, amends the Securities Act (Eligible Service Superannuation Schemes) Exemption Notice 2004 (the principal notice) by extending the expiry from 28 February 2010 to 31 July 2014.

The Securities Commission considers that the extension of the term of the principal notice is appropriate because the difficulties addressed by the exemption in the notice still exist and the reasons justifying the exemption remain valid. The reasons are as follows:

• the Commission has previously considered an application from the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, the Methodist Church of New Zealand, and the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand seeking an exemption from the requirement for a registered prospectus when offering membership in particular superannuation schemes (the schemes) to individuals who include some or all of the following: ministers in their church, candidates accepted for the ministry in their church, and persons accepted for training as ministers. At law these individuals are not employees of the churches, and accordingly the schemes are not employer superannuation schemes within the meaning either of the Securities Act 1978 or the Securities Act (Employer Superannuation Schemes) Exemption Notice 2004:

• the exemptions in sections 5A to 5C of the Securities Act 1978 and in the Securities Act (Employer Superannuation Schemes) Exemption Notice 2004 apply to schemes offered within an employment relationship. The Commission continues to consider that the position of an individual who qualifies for membership of a scheme to which the principal notice applies is sufficiently similar to that of an employee for an exemption to be consistent with the policy of sections 5A to 5C of the Act.