Withdrawn Guidance Notes

The following Guidance Note and Practice Notes were withdrawn on 10 December 2020.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
  • 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
• 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The following Guidance Note and Practice Notes were withdrawn on 3 November 2020.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The following Guidance Note was withdrawn on 18 October 2020.

• Continuous Disclosure (1 January 2019)

The following Guidance Notes were withdrawn on 1 July 2019.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The following Guidance Notes were withdrawn on 28 April 2017.

• Continuous Disclosure (December 2014)

The following Guidance Notes were withdrawn on 19 December 2014.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The following guidance notes were withdrawn on 1 December 2014.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;

• Covid- 19 Relief - Class waiver for Periodic Reporting Requirements

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