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Receiverships Act 1993

3: Public notice

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"Telling the public about important changes that affect a business"

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When a law says you must give public notice about something that affects a grantor, you have to tell people about it. You do this by putting a notice in the Gazette and in a newspaper that people read in the area where the grantor's business is. If the grantor has more than one business, you put the notice in a newspaper where their main business is. If you do not know where their business is, you put the notice in a newspaper where their office is, or where they live.

If the grantor is a company from overseas, you still have to give public notice. You put a notice in the Gazette and in a newspaper that people read in the area where the overseas company's business is in New Zealand. If the overseas company has more than one business in New Zealand, you put the notice in a newspaper where their main business is.

You have to follow these rules when you are giving public notice about something that affects a grantor, so people know what is happening.

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3Public notice

  1. Where, pursuant to this Act, public notice must be given of any matter affecting a grantor, not being a grantor that is an overseas company, that notice must be given by publishing notice of the matter—

  2. in at least 1 issue of the Gazette; and
    1. in at least 1 issue of a newspaper circulating in the area in New Zealand in which is situated—
      1. the grantor's place of business; or
        1. if the grantor has more than 1 place of business, the grantor's principal place of business; or
          1. if the grantor has no place of business or neither its place of business nor its principal place of business is known, the grantor's registered office in the case of a body corporate, or the residence of the grantor in the case of an individual.

          2. Where, pursuant to this Act, public notice must be given of any matter affecting a grantor that is an overseas company, that notice must be given by publishing notice of the matter—

          3. in at least 1 issue of the Gazette; and
            1. in at least 1 issue of a newspaper circulating in the area in which is situated—
              1. the place of business in New Zealand of the grantor; or
                1. if the grantor has more than 1 place of business in New Zealand, the principal place of business in New Zealand of the grantor.