# New Zealand

Company data from the New Zealand business register, through the Topograph API.

> **Beta**: this country is in early development. We are still expanding and refining its coverage. Some datapoints or documents may be missing, the integration may be unstable, prices may change without notice, and it is not covered by SLAs.

## Overview

Topograph reads New Zealand Business Number register and New Zealand Companies Office and returns the company profile, legal representatives, other key persons and shareholders of New Zealand companies through one API.

## Coverage

What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.

Requests run in prefill mode (fast) or verification mode (the authoritative register answer).

| Datapoint | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Company profile | Yes |
| Legal representatives | Yes |
| Other key persons | Yes |
| Shareholders | Yes |

| Document | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Register extract | Yes |
| Articles of association | Yes |
| Financials | Yes |
| UBO extract | No |

### Documents, as the register names them

- Company Extract
- Constitution
- Financial Statements

## Sources

The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.

- **[New Zealand Business Number register](https://www.nzbn.govt.nz/)**: The New Zealand Business Number register, kept by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, holds every entity registered with the Companies Office (companies, overseas companies, limited partnerships, incorporated societies, charitable trusts and the smaller statutory forms) together with the sole traders, partnerships and trusts that applied for a number: names and trading names, status, addresses, directors and other roles with their history, and the share register of companies.
- **[New Zealand Companies Office](https://companiesoffice.govt.nz/)**: The Companies Office, part of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, keeps the New Zealand companies register and issues the Company Extract, the Certificate of Incorporation and the documents filed by a company: annual returns, financial statements, constitutions, director and shareholder particulars.
- **[GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)](https://www.gleif.org/en/lei-data/gleif-golden-copy/download-the-golden-copy)** (secondary): Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data

## Identifiers

Request a company by its New Zealand Business Number (NZBN) as the `id`, with `countryCode` set to `NZ`. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.

## The full New Zealand reference

The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.

| In the full reference | Entries |
| --- | --- |
| Identifiers and formats | 4 |
| Search patterns | 3 |
| Quirks | 10 |
| Legal forms | 21 |
| Officer roles | 6 |
| Company statuses | 10 |
| Documents | 6 |
| Example responses | 7 |

- Create a free account: https://www.topograph.co/sign-up?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fnz
- Sign in: https://www.topograph.co/sign-in?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fnz

With a session, https://www.topograph.co/countries/nz.md returns the full reference as Markdown. Assistants signed in to the [Topograph Wizard MCP](https://docs.topograph.co/guides/topograph-mcp) can read it there too.

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Source: https://www.topograph.co/countries/nz