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
• Bond Designations
  • Template - Application for Bond Designation 2024
• Change of Balance Date
• Changes to Indices
• Effective Announcements
• Providing information, as required under legislation, to NZX
• Using Announcement Types

Shareholder Meetings

• Notice of Meeting
  • Template - Notice of Meeting - Appendix Document
• Shareholder Meeting Results
  • Template - Results Announcement

Annual Report and Governance

• Annual Report and Governance Checklist
  • Template - Annual Report and Governance Checklist
• Gender Diversity

Raising Capital

• Accelerated Entitlement Offers
• ANREO Offers
• SPP and Placements
• Application for Quotation
  • Template - Application for Quotation - Equity Securities
  • Template - Application for Quotation - Debt Securities
  • Template - Application for Quotation - Fund Securities
  • Template - Application for Quotation - Other Financial Product
  • Template - Application for Quotation - Rights and Entitlements
• QFP Exemption
• Rights Issue Requirements and Timetable
• Issues of Warrants

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
• Capital Reconstruction
• Conversion of Financial Products
• Notifying Changes in Securities
• Redemption of Debt Securities

Authorised Representatives

• Issuer Authorised Representatives
• Authorised Representative Training
• Prescribed form to notify or change Authorised Representative information

Other

• Changing or Replacing Bonds
• Delisting
• Foreign Exempt Issuers
• Fund Issuers
• Trading Halts
  • Template - Application for Trading Halt (NZX Issuer)
  • Template - Application for Trading Halt (NZX & ASX Issuer)
• When MAP is unavailable

New Issuers

• Foreign Exempt Issuers - ASX Direct Listing Applicants
  • Template - Application Form for Listing as a NZX Foreign Exempt Issuer
  • Template - Profile for Listing as an NZX Foreign Exempt Issuer
• Listing and Quotation of Debt Securities
• Listing and Quotation of Fund Securities
• Listing and Quotation of New Equity Securities
  • Template - Application for Quotation of Securities
• Listing Wholesale Debt
• Ticker Code Allocation - Applies 31 August 2022

Please submit an Instrument Information Sheet with any new listing application.

Standard form NZX agreements for new issuers

• NZX Pre-Listing Agreement
• NZX Listing Agreement
• Market Announcement Platform Agreement

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