NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 29

11 MARCH 2010

Departmental Notices

Archives New Zealand

Public Records Act 2005

Appointments to the Archives Council

Pursuant to section 14(2) of the Public Records Act 2005, I hereby appoint

Barry Holdaway
Ani Pahuru-Huriwai
George Reedy
Dame Mary Anne Salmond
Melwyn Smith
Stuart Strachan

as members of the Archives Council, each for a term of three years; I also hereby appoint

Richard Nottage

as a member and chairperson of the Archives Council, for a term of three years.

Their terms of appointment will commence from the date of the publication of this notice.

Dated this 11th day of March 2010.

HON NATHAN GUY, Minister Responsible for Archives New Zealand.
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Conservation

Reserves Act 1977

Appointment to the Moutoa Gardens Historic Reserve Board

Under the Reserves Act 1977, the Minister of Conservation appoints

Che Philip Wilson

to be a member of the Moutoa Gardens Historic Reserve Board.

Dated this 22nd day of February 2010.

HON KATE WILKINSON, Minister of Conservation.
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Economic Development

Financial Reporting Act 1993

Financial Reporting Act (GE Corporate NZ LLC) Exemption Notice 2010

Pursuant to section 35B of the Financial Reporting Act 1993 (“the Act”), the Registrar of Companies gives the following notice (to which is appended a statement of reasons of the Registrar).

Notice

1. Title—This notice is the Financial Reporting Act (GE Corporate NZ LLC) Exemption Notice 2010.

2. Commencement—This notice comes into force on its notification in the New Zealand Gazette.

3. Expiry—This notice expires on the close of 31 July 2015.

4. Application—An exemption granted by this notice applies to the following accounting periods of the exempt overseas company:

   (a) An accounting period of the exempt overseas company that commenced before the exemption is granted (including an accounting period that ended before the exemption is granted) if:

   (i) in the case of copies of financial statements or group financial statements for that period that are required to be delivered for registration under section 19 of the Act, the exemption is granted before those documents are required to be delivered for registration under that section; or

   (ii) in any other case, the exemption is granted before the financial statements or group financial statements for that period are required to be completed; and

   (b) subsequent accounting periods.

5. Interpretation—In this notice, unless the context otherwise requires:

   Act means the Financial Reporting Act 1993.

   exempt overseas company means GE Corporate NZ LLC.

   parent company means General Electric Company.

   specified financial statements, in relation to the exempt overseas company, means the consolidated financial statements that are required to be prepared in respect of the parent company in accordance with the laws of the United States of America.

   US GAAP means generally accepted accounting practice in the United States of America.

6. Exemptions for directors of the exempt overseas company—Every director of the exempt overseas company is exempted from the following provisions in respect of the exempt overseas company:

   (a) sections 10(1) and 11 of the Act to the extent that these sections require stand-alone financial statements to be prepared for the exempt overseas company;

   (b) sections 13 and 14 of the Act to the extent that these sections require group financial statements to be prepared for the exempt overseas company; and

   (c) section 19(3) of the Act to the extent that it requires copies of stand-alone financial statements for the exempt overseas company and group financial statements in relation to a group comprising that company and its subsidiaries, together with a copy of the auditor’s report on those statements, to be delivered to the Registrar for registration.

7. Conditions—The exemptions in clause 6 are subject to the conditions that:

   (a) the specified financial statements are delivered to the Registrar for registration as if they were the group financial statements required of the exempt overseas company.