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401: References to companies incorporated under Companies Act 1955
or “How laws apply to companies created under different Acts”
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“Fee for New Zealand Business Number costs is confirmed as valid”

This law is about a fee that you might have paid when dealing with companies in New Zealand. Here’s what you need to know:

The fee applies to money you paid before 30 June 2019 under the Companies Act 1993 Regulations 1994. This money was used to help pay for the work done by the person in charge of New Zealand Business Numbers.

The law says that this fee was always okay to charge. It was set up properly by the rules made under section 372 of the Companies Act.

Also, the money that the Registrar of Companies got from this fee was always collected and used in the right way.

This law makes sure that everything about this fee was done correctly, even if people weren’t sure about it before.

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Next up: 403: Validation of fees used to recover costs of other Companies Office registers, etc

or “Confirming the legality of past fees for Companies Office services”
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Part 22 Miscellaneous

402Validation of fee used to recover costs of Registrar of New Zealand Business Numbers

  1. This section applies to a fee—

  2. payable or purportedly payable on or before 30 June 2019 in accordance with the Companies Act 1993 Regulations 1994; but
    1. that was (or is or will be) used (in whole or in part) to recover the costs, or a share of the costs, of the Registrar of New Zealand Business Numbers in the performance or exercise of a function, power, or duty conferred by or under the New Zealand Business Number Act 2016.

      1. The fee is and always has been validly imposed by regulations made under section 372.

      2. Money received by the Registrar of Companies in payment of the fee is and always has been lawfully collected and applied.

      Notes
      • Section 402: inserted, on , by section 5 of the New Zealand Business Number Funding (Validation and Authorisation) Act 2019 (2019 No 25).