Practice Notes
Practice notes are an additional tool that sit alongside NZX’s existing guidance notes. The notes reflect NZ RegCo’s continuing focus on issuer engagement and are designed to help listed issuers understand, and comply with, their listing rules obligations.
Existing Issuers
- Administrative Announcements PDF170.25 KB
- Announcement Retractions and Re-releases PDF112.84 KB
- Bond Designations PDF191.22 KB
- Template - Application for Bond Designation 2025 DOCX69.68 KB
- Change of Auditor PDF156.92 KB
- Change of Balance Date PDF173.74 KB
- Changes to Indices PDF145.50 KB
- Effective Announcements PDF156.97 KB
- Providing information, as required under legislation, to NZX PDF216.88 KB
- Senior Managers PDF163.37 KB
- Using Announcement Types PDF230.21 KB
Trading Halts
- Trading Halt Applications PDF227.71 KB
Shareholder Meetings
- Notice of Meeting PDF179.25 KB
- Template - Notice of Meeting - Appendix Document DOCX52.37 KB
- Meeting Results PDF149.60 KB
- Template - Results Announcement DOCX99.39 KB
Annual Report and Governance
- Annual Report and Governance Checklist PDF149.88 KB
- Director Nominations PDF138.96 KB
- Gender Diversity PDF158.01 KB
Raising Capital
- Accelerated Entitlement Offers PDF219.63 KB
- Admitted Products PDF154.57 KB
- ANREO Offers PDF165.75 KB
- Application for Quotation PDF167.51 KB
- Template - Application for Quotation DOCX54.61 KB - Equity Securities
- Template - Application for Quotation DOCX55.41 KB - Debt Securities
- Template - Application for Quotation DOCX51.92 KB - Fund Securities
- Template - Application for Quotation DOCX54.78 KB - Other Financial Product
- Template - Application for Quotation DOCX51.81 KB - Rights and Entitlements
- Dividend Reinvestment Plans PDF135.91 KB
- Issues of Warrants PDF171.79 KB
- QFP Exemption PDF179.08 KB
- Rights Issue Requirements and Timetable PDF162.86 KB
- SPP and Placements PDF201.86 KB
Please submit an Instrument Information Sheet with any application for quotation.
Please see the NZX Debt Conventions Protocol for further information about quoted debt instruments.
Capital Changes
- Announcements of Capital Changes - Wholesale Debt PDF154.13 KB
- Capital Reconstruction PDF214.66 KB
- Conversion of Financial Products PDF174.33 KB
- Notifying Changes in Securities PDF192.14 KB
- Redemption of Debt Securities PDF181.78 KB
Authorised Representatives
- Authorised Representative Training PDF169.65 KB
- Issuer Authorised Representatives PDF167.47 KB
- Prescribed form to notify or change Authorised Representative information
Other
- Changing or Replacing Bonds PDF157.03 KB
- Delisting PDF174.32 KB
- Dividends and Distributions PDF138.51 KB
- Foreign Exempt Issuers PDF164.26 KB
- Fund Issuers PDF163.33 KB
- When MAP is unavailable PDF157.94 KB
New Issuers
- Foreign Exempt Issuers - ASX Direct Listing Applicants PDF194.68 KB
- Listing and Quotation of Debt Securities PDF202.16 KB
- Listing and Quotation of Fund Securities PDF199.95 KB
- Listing and Quotation of New Equity Securities PDF207.10 KB
- Template - Application for Quotation of Securities DOCX74.73 KB
- Listing Wholesale Debt PDF162.61 KB
- Ticker Code Allocation - Applies 31 August 2022 PDF133.89 KB
Please submit an Instrument Information Sheet with any new listing application.
Standard form NZX agreements for new issuers
- NZX Pre-Listing Agreement DOCX958.28 KB
- NZX Listing Agreement DOCX963.34 KB
- Market Announcement Platform Agreement DOCX48.46 KB
Further information and templates to assist existing issuers with NZX Listing Rule obligations, and the Market Announcement Platform (MAP) are available on MAP.
Historic Practice Notes
For further information on the changes to these Practice Notes, please find their historic versions in mark-up here