When the Registrar removes your company

In this guide:

• If you don't meet your obligations under the Act
• If your company has been in liquidation
• Amalgamating with another company
• If you don't want your company removed

If you don't meet your obligations under the Act

We can remove your company from the Companies Register if we believe it’s no longer operating.

For example, if you don't—

• file an annual return for your company
• respond to requests for information that you must supply to us.

Your company can also be removed if—

• you intentionally provide inaccurate information to us
• your company's directors or shareholders persistently fail to comply with duties relating to the company under the Act
• it doesn't have a director living in—
  • New Zealand, or
  • Australia and who is a director of a company incorporated in Australia.

If your company has been in liquidation

We must remove the company if—

• your liquidator has sent the final report for the liquidation, or
• no liquidator is acting for the company.

Amalgamating with another company

If your company no longer exists because of an amalgamation, we remove it from the register on the day we issue a certificate of amalgamation.

If you don't want your company removed

We’ll send you a notice if your company is going to be removed from the register. We’ll also publish a notice on our website.

To stop the removal you must take action within 20 working days.

Either—

• comply with any conditions stated in the notice, or
• object to the removal.

See our current notices

Other guides in

Closing a company

• Before you close your company
• Applying to remove your company from the register
• Objecting to the removal of a company
• Withdrawing an objection

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