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Withdrawn Guidance Notes
The following Guidance Note was withdrawn on 31 January 2025
The following Guidance Note and Practice Notes were withdrawn on 10 December 2020.
- Trading Halts and Suspensions
- Approval of Appraisers
- Backdoor and Reverse Listings
- Continuous Disclosure
- Diversity Policies and Disclosure
- Governance
- Issuer Engagement
- Major and Related Party Transactions
- NZX ESG Guidance
- Spread
- Trading Halts and Suspensions
- Accelerated Entitlement Offers
- Administrative Announcements
- Announcements for Convertible Securities
- Application for Quotation
- Change of Balance Date
- Changes to Indices
- Changing or Replacing Bonds
- Delisting
- Effective Announcements
- Foreign Exempt Issuers
- Foreign Exempt Issuers - ASX Direct Listing Applicants
- Listing and Quotation of Debt Securities
- Listing and Quotation of Fund Securities
- Listing and Quotation of New Equity Securities
- Listing Wholesale Debt
- Notice of Meeting
- Notifying Changes in Securities
- Providing Information Required by Legislation
- QFP Exemption
- Rights Issue Requirements and Timetable
- Redemption of Debt Securities
- Shareholder Meeting Results
- Trading Halts
- Using Announcement Types
The following Guidance Note and Practice Notes were withdrawn on 3 November 2020.
- Backdoor and Reverse Listings (1 January 2019)
- Foreign Exempt Issuers (1 January 2019)
- Listing and Quotation of New Equity Securities (1 January 2019)
The following Guidance Note was withdrawn on 18 October 2020.
The following Guidance Notes were withdrawn on 1 July 2019.
- Continuous Disclosure (April 2017)
- Diversity Policies and Disclosure (February 2015)
- Spread (December 2014)
- Approval of Appraisers (December 2014)
- Trading Halts and Suspensions (December 2014)
- Issuer Engagement with NZX Regulation (November 2014)
- Reverse and Backdoor Listings (August 2008)
- ESG Guidance Note (March 2018)
The following Guidance Notes were withdrawn on 28 April 2017.
The following Guidance Notes were withdrawn on 19 December 2014.
- Continuous Disclosure (April 2011)
- Trading Halts and the Public Release of Information by NZX (March 2005)
The following guidance notes were withdrawn on 1 December 2014.
- Guidance Note – Approval of Persons to Provide Appraisal Reports
- Process for amending NZX conduct rules (12 April 2005)
- Policy Statements (22 September 2005)
- The Impact of NZIFRS on Continuous Disclosure (16 December 2005)
- Guidance Note - Waivers and Rulings (20 December 2005)
- Guidance note - Hybrid Securities (01 March 2007)
- Guidance note - Share Purchase Plans (01 May 2007)
- Guidance note - Spread (01 May 2007)
- Guidance note - Allotments (January 2012)
- NZDX Debt Market Conventions note
- Debt Security Issues Guidance note - (17 December 2007)
Withdrawn Practice Notes
The following Practice Notes were withdrawn on 1 July 2019.
- PN-01/2017 - Issuer Engagement with NZXR
- PN-02/2017 - Timing and the NZX Rules
- PN-03/2017 - Notifying changes in Securities
- PN-04/2017 - Rights Issue requirements and timetable
- PN-04/2017 - Rights Issue Calculator
- PN-05/2017 - Administrative Announcements
- PN-06/2017 - Shareholder Meeting Results
- PN-06/2017 - Shareholder Meeting Results Template
- PN-07/2017 - Notice of Meeting Checklist
- PN-08/2017 - Changes to Indices
- PN-09/2017 - Changing or replacing bonds
- PN-09/2017 - Template for Specific Security Deed
- PN-09/2017 - Template for Bank Bond
- PN-10/2017 - Trading Halts
- PN-10/2017 - Trading Halts template for Issuers Listed on the NZX
- PN-10/2017 - Trading Halts template for Issuers Listed on the NZX and ASX
- PN-11/2017 - Providing information, as required under legislation, to NZX (3rd party announcements)
- PN-12/2017 - Using announcement types when releasing announcements
- PN-13/2017 - Application for Quotation
- PN-13/2017 - Application for Quotation - Template Letter
- PN-14/2017 - Accelerated Entitlement Offers
- PN-15/2017 - Conversion of Securities
- PN-16/2017 - Delisting Process for Equity Issuers
- PN-17/2017 - Disclosure Practices
- PN-18/2017 - QFP Applications and Cleansing Notices
- PN-19/2017 - Change of Balance Date
- PN-20/2017 - Redemption of Debt Securities
- PN-21/2017 - Making Effective Announcements
- PN-22/2018 - Application for Listing Template
- PN-23/2018 - Listing and Quotation of Debt Securities
Withdrawn Class Rulings and Waivers
The following class Waivers and Rulings were withdrawn on the 20 December 2022;
- Class waiver for NZX Listing Rules 4.14.1(a) On-Market Buybacks
- Class Ruling on NZX Listing Rule 4.11.1(e) - Issue of Discounted Equity Securities
- Class Ruling on NZX Listing Rules 2.13.3 - Audit Committee
- Class Ruling on NZX Listing Rule 7.1 - Notices of Meeting
The following Class Waivers and Rulings were withdrawn on 31 December 2020;
The following Class Waivers and Rulings were withdrawn on 30 September 2020;
- Class waiver and ruling in relation to Rule 4.1 and 4.4 - ANREO (expired 30 September 2020)
- Class waiver for Equity Capital Raising Requirements (expired 30 September 2020)
The following Class Rulings and Waivers were withdrawn on 1 July 2019 as they relate to the NZX Main Board/Debt Market Listing Rules prior to 1 January 2019.
- Class waiver and ruling for NZAX and NXT Market Migration
- Class waiver and ruling for NZX Main Board and Debt Market Transition
- Ruling on NZX Main Board Listing Rule 10.4.4 - Annual Reporting Updates
- Ruling On Nzx Main Board Debt Market Listing Rule 6.2.6(B) Nzax Listing Rule 6.2.5(B) Nxt Market Listing Rule 65
- Ruling on NZX Main Board Listing Rule 10.4.5(i) - Corporate Governance Reporting
- Waiver and Ruling on NZX Debt Market Rules 3.2.1(d) and (e)
- Ruling on NZX Main Board Listing Rule 10.4.5(j) - Gender Diversity Reporting
- Ruling on NZX Debt Market Listing Rule 5.2.3 - Debt Spread Requirements
- Waiver from NZX Main Board and Debt Market Independent Director Requirements
- Ruling on NZX Main Board/Debt Market Listing Rule 10.6.1(e) and NZX Listing Rule 10.7.1(e)
- Waiver from NZX Main Board Listing Rules for Accelerated Offers