This page contains different parts of laws about Starting a business.
168B: Self-employed persons to pay levies
268: Protection of names Accident Compensation Corporation and Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Corporation
30: Registrar may refuse to accept document
CB 31: Disposal of business: transferred employment income obligations
CE 9: Restrictive covenants
DC 10: Disposal of business: transferred employment income obligations
EH 54: Income when refund given on bankruptcy
FE 38: Measuring ownership interests in companies
FE 39: Direct ownership interests
HA 5: Elections to become qualifying company
HA 30: When elections take effect
HA 32: Revocation of shareholders’ elections: by notice
HA 44: Measuring effective interests
HC 29: Settlors’ liability to income tax
IC 7: Place of incorporation or carrying on business
YC 3: Market value interests
YC 19: Legislative conversion of foreign company of proprietors
1: Short Title and commencement
7: Trustees may apply for incorporation
10: Applications for incorporation
11: Registration of boards
15: Name of board
1: Short Title and commencement
2: Interpretation
8: Certain matters to be disregarded
10: Essential requirements
14: Certificate of incorporation
15: Separate legal personality
20: Name to be reserved
21: Name of company if liability of shareholders limited
22: Application for reservation of name
23: Change of name
24: Direction to change name
26: No requirement for company to have constitution
29: Form of constitution
30: Contents of constitution
32: Adoption, alteration, and revocation of constitution
33: New form of constitution
34: Court may alter constitution
40: Contracts for issue of shares
41: Issue of shares on registration and amalgamation
43: Notice of share issue
46: Consideration for issue of shares
46A: Consideration for issue of shares on registration
51: Time of issue of shares
68: Meaning of redeemable
87: Company to maintain share register
88: Place of share register
93: Personal representative may be registered
120: Annual meeting of shareholders
153: Appointment of first and subsequent directors
154: Court may appoint directors
157: Director ceasing to hold office
159: Notice of change of directors
160: Proceedings of board
182: Pre-incorporation contracts may be ratified
183: Warranties implied in pre-incorporation contracts
185A: Jurisdiction of District Court
186: Registered office
187: Change of registered office
188: Requirement to change registered office
189: Company records
190: Form of records
192: Address for service
193: Change of address for service
193A: Rectification or correction of address for service
195: Place accounting records to be kept
214: Annual return
214A: Registrar may alter New Zealand register
220: Amalgamation proposal
223: Registration of amalgamation proposal
224: Certificate of amalgamation
225: Effect of certificate of amalgamation
239F: Who may be appointed as administrator
239G: What administrator must do before appointment
239P: When office of administrator is vacant
239ACD: Who may be appointed as deed administrator
239AEQ: Interpretation of terms for purposes of this subpart
256: Duties in relation to records
257: Duties in relation to final report and accounts
282: What liquidator must do before appointment
318: Grounds for removal from register
319: Notice of intention to remove company under paragraph (aaa), (b), (ba), (bb), (bc), (bd), or (f) of section 318(1)
320: Notice of intention to remove company under paragraph (c), (d), or (e) of section 318(1)
321: Objection to removal from register
322: Duties of Registrar if objection received
328: Registrar may restore company to New Zealand register
330: Restoration to register
333: Name to be reserved before carrying on business
334: Overseas companies to register under this Act
336: Application for registration
337: Registration of overseas company
339: Alteration of constitution
340: Annual return of overseas company
341: Overseas company ceasing to carry on business in New Zealand
344: Overseas companies may be registered as companies under this Act
345: Application for registration
346: Overseas companies must be authorised to register
348: Registration
351: Application to transfer incorporation
355: Removal from register
357: Registrar and Deputy Registrars of Companies
358: District and Assistant Registrars of Companies
359: Responsible District Registrar
360: Registers
360A: Rectification or correction of New Zealand register and overseas register
362: Registration of documents
372: Fees
382: Persons prohibited from managing companies
388: Service of other documents on companies
HB 13: LTC elections
HZ 4D: Qualifying companies: transition into sole traderships
13: Mode of establishing society
14: Registration of rules of society
15: Incorporation of society
21: Restriction on registration of names
29: Minimum subscription by founding members
72: Registered office of society
113D: Registrar of Companies to register society as company on receipt of certain documents
399: Companies Act 1955 continues to apply for limited purposes
400: Companies restored to register or that have ceased to be in liquidation may be reregistered
5: Overview of this Act
Schedule 11: Liquidation of associations
EW 33D: Foreign ASAPs: contingencies for business combinations
137A: Validation of fees used to recover costs of other Companies Office registers, etc
Schedule 14: List of relevant Acts and registers
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