Managing your online services account

To register a limited partnership you must first have an online services account. Find out about the Limited Partnerships Registers, how to set up your account, and use the online dashboard.

• Setting up your online services account
• Using the online dashboard
• What are the Business Registers?
• NZBN and the Business Registers
• Using the NZBN watchlist

Find out how to search the Business Registers for information about New Zealand and overseas limited partnerships, and their current status.

• How to search the Limited Partnerships Registers
• Searching the Business Registers
• NZBN and the Business Registers
• Using the NZBN watchlist

Limited partnerships are registered under the Limited Partnerships Act 2008. The registers of limited partnerships and overseas limited partnerships are administered by the NZ Companies Office.

• What a limited partnership is
• Powers of the Registrar
• General partners, requirements and disqualifications
• Limited partners
• General partner, promoter and manager prohibition
• Making a complaint about a general partner

To register a limited partnership in New Zealand you must complete the application process and pay the registration fee.

• Steps to registering a limited partnership
• Fees
• Managing your payment options

Once you've registered your limited partnership, you'll need to maintain the registration by filing annual returns and keeping partnership name, partner and address details up to date.

• Requesting authority to manage information
• Filing your annual return
• Changing a limited partnership address
• Changing a limited partnership name
• Changing partner details
• Managing your payment options
• Changing your annual return filing month
• Requesting a correction to the register

If you terminate your limited partnership or ask for it to be deregistered, you must notify us so it can be removed from the register. The Registrar can also choose to deregister limited partnerships.

• Terminating a limited partnership
• How to apply to deregister a limited partnership
• Deregistration by the Registrar
• Objecting to deregistration

You can apply to the Registrar to have your limited partnership restored to the register. You'll need to provide evidence to support your application.

• Applying to restore a limited partnership
• Objecting to restoration

Forms you'll need in order to maintain your limited partnership, and a schedule of fees payable.

• Forms
• Fees
• Managing your payment options

Overseas limited partnerships must apply to register within 10 working days of commencing business in New Zealand, and must meet annual filing requirements to remain registered.

• About overseas limited partnerships
• Registering an overseas limited partnership
• General partners of overseas limited partnerships
• Filing overseas limited partnership annual return
• Changing name — overseas limited partnership
• Changing partner details — overseas limited partnership
• Changing an address — overseas limited partnership
• Ceasing business in New Zealand
• Forms for overseas limited partnerships
• Fees