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Building Societies Act 1965

Management and administration - Registered office

72: Registered office of society

You could also call this:

“Where the society keeps its main address”

Every society must have a registered office in New Zealand. This is where people can send messages and notices to the society. The society’s rules say where the registered office is.

If a society was created before this law started and its main office isn’t the one in its rules, they need to tell the Registrar about it. They have to do this within one month after the law starts. This office will be the registered office until they tell the Registrar about any changes. When the Registrar gets this information, they will tell the District Registrar of Companies about the office.

If a society doesn’t tell the Registrar about their main office when they should, they’re breaking the law. The society and any officer who didn’t follow this rule can get in trouble.

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Part 7 Management and administration
Registered office

72Registered office of society

  1. Every society shall, as from the date of its incorporation, have a registered office in New Zealand to which all communications and notices may be addressed.

  2. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the registered office of a society shall be that specified in its rules.

  3. Where the chief office of any society incorporated before the date of the commencement of this Act and in existence on that date is not the office as specified in its rules, the society shall notify the Registrar, within 1 month after that date, of the situation of its chief office, and that office shall, until notice of any change is given to the Registrar, be the registered office of the society for the purposes of this Act. On receipt of the notification, the Registrar shall forthwith notify the appropriate District Registrar of Companies of the situation of that office.

  4. If a society fails to comply with subsection (3), the society, and every officer of the society who is in default, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.