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191: Inspection of records by directors
or “Directors can inspect company records, with some exceptions”
You could also call this:

“Company must have a New Zealand address for receiving official documents”

You need to have an address in New Zealand where people can send important papers to your company. This is called your ‘address for service’.

Your address for service can be the same as your company’s main office, or it can be somewhere else. But it can’t be a post office box or a document exchange.

The address that’s written down as your address for service in the official New Zealand register is the one that counts.

When you tell people your address for service, you need to be clear about where it is. If it’s at your company’s main office, just say that. If it’s somewhere else, you need to give the full address.

If your address for service is at a firm of accountants, lawyers, or any other business, you need to say that. You also need to explain exactly where in their building it is.

If your address for service is in a building where other businesses are, but not at one of those businesses, you need to explain exactly where in the building it is.

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Next up: 193: Change of address for service

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Part 10 Administration of companies
Address for service

192Address for service

  1. A company must have an address for service in New Zealand.

  2. The address for service may be the company's registered office or another place, but it must not be at a postal centre or document exchange.

  3. A company's address for service at any particular time is the address that is described as its address for service in the New Zealand register at that time.

  4. The description of the address for service must state that it is at the registered office of the company, or if it is at another place, must—

  5. state the address of that place; and
    1. if the address for service is at the offices of any firm of accountants, barristers and solicitors, or any other person, state—
      1. that the address for service of the company is at the offices of that firm or person; and
        1. particulars of the location in any building of those offices; or
        2. if the address for service is not at the offices of any such firm or person but is located in a building occupied by persons other than the company, state particulars of its location in the building.

          Notes
          • Section 192(4)(b): amended, on , by section 17 of the Financial Reporting Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 64).