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• Ordinarily resident in New Zealand

  Find out how we define ‘ordinarily resident in New Zealand’.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Ownership or control

  Find out about the level of ownership or control interest that determines whether consent is required to invest in New Zealand.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Investing on behalf of an overseas person

  Find out about the need to apply for consent if you are a New Zealand citizen or are ordinarily resident in New Zealand, and are investing on behalf of an overseas person. These rules are called the ‘associate provisions’.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Privacy, confidentiality, and sharing of information

  What information may be shared or publicly released, and what information may be withheld by the Overseas Investment Office.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Register: Exemptions from definition of non-New Zealand government investor

  This page provides a register of exemptions from the definition of non-New Zealand government investor.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Our enforcement tools

  Find out about the tools and powers we can use when responding to breaches of the overseas investment rules.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Declining an application

  Find out the process we follow when we decline an application for consent to invest in New Zealand.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Register: Transitional exemption certificates for large residential developments

  This page provides a register of transitional exemption certificates for large residential developments.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Register: Exemption certificates for large residential developments

  This page provides a register of exemption certificates for large residential developments.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Investing in land to provide a benefit to New Zealand

  Find out more about investing in sensitive land to provide a benefit to New Zealand.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Arrange a pre-application meeting

  You and your advisors can meet with us before you submit your application for consent.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Registers of exemptions

  Registers of exemption certificates for large residential development, transitional exemption certificates for large residential development, discretionary exemptions, and exemptions from the definition of non-New Zealand government investor.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Apply for retrospective consent

  Find out if you can apply for consent retrospectively if you have made an investment without getting consent first.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Camp Glenorchy Case Study

  Philanthropists Paul and Deborah Brainerd were granted consent in 2014 to buy the Glenorchy holiday park and general store.
  Page

  • Overseas investment

• Costco Case Study

  Costco Wholesale New Zealand Limited (Costco) was in March 2020 granted consent by the Office to acquire about 2.7 hectares of land in Westgate for approximately $23 million.
  Page

  • Overseas investment

• Supplementary ministerial directive letter - 8 June 2020

  This letter is superseded, but contains information about the functions and powers under the Act and the Regulations that have been delegated to the OIO.
  Resource

  • Overseas investment

• Designation and delegation letter - 17 October 2018

  This letter is superseded, but contains information about the functions and powers under the Act and the Regulations that have been delegated to the OIO.
  Resource

  • Overseas investment

• Report a suspected breach

  Tell us if you think someone has broken the overseas investment rules.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Pānui - June 2022

  A Bill relating to overseas investment in production forestry is being considered by a Parliamentary select committee and, if approved, the changes are likely to take effect quickly. Find out more in this month's Pānui.
  News

  • Overseas investment

• Oceana Gold Limited’s application for Overseas Investment consent

  Oceana Gold operates a gold mine operation in Waihi. It sought consent to acquire approximately 197.066 hectares of sensitive land at Waihi to build a portal on the Land to their Wharekirauponga Tunnel
  Resource

  • Overseas investment

• Kauri Forestry LP Overseas Investment Assessment Report

  Overseas Investment’s Assessment report prepared for Kauri Forestry LP’s application for a standing consent to acquire interests in sensitive land for forestry purposes under the Overseas Investment Act 2005.
  Resource

  • Overseas investment

• The OIO’s assessment report to ministers on the application by Mercury Agriculture Ltd Partnership to purchase land in South Canterbury

  This application, under the Overseas Investment Act 2005, is for Mercury Agriculture Limited Partnership to acquire a further 43.4% interest in Rangitata Dairies Ltd Partnership and Rangitata GP Ltd, bringing its interest in each of these entities to 68.3…
  Resource

  • Overseas investment

• Buying residential property to live in

  Find out about buying or building a home in New Zealand to live in, and whether you will need consent to do so.
  Guidance

  • Overseas investment

• Farm to Forestry Conversions under the Overseas Investment Act 2005

  Request was for the assessment reports for 10 specific applications for farm to forestry conversions under the Overseas Investment Act 2005.
  Resource

  • Overseas investment

• Holcim (New Zealand) Limited overseas investment consent Application, Investment Plan, Assessment Report

  Application, Investment Plan, Assessment Report for application for consent from Holcim (New Zealand) Limited.
  Resource

  • Overseas investment

• High Court orders civil penalties totalling $130,000 for purchase of sensitive land without consent

  A Korean citizen and his lawyer have been ordered to pay $130,000 in civil penalties, in addition to criminal fines handed down in 2020, after the pair attempted to obstruct the Overseas Investment Office investigation.
  News

  • Overseas investment

• Pānui - May 2022

  This edition of Pānui includes our top tips for smooth sailing when it comes to fresh or seawater areas, invite you to attend our webinar about the types of real estate transactions that require our consent, and list our recent decision sum
  News

  • Overseas investment

• EnviroWaste Services Ltd’s compliance with ecological and walking access conditions

  The OIA response provides information on EnviroWaste Services Ltd’s compliance with the ecological and walking access conditions.
  Resource

  • Overseas investment

• Sale of Gisborne farms to Ingka Investments and details of land approved in the last three years

  This OIA response provides a link to the Overseas Investment Assessment Report relating to Ingka Investments’ application for consent under the Overseas Investment Act 2005 to acquire the Huiarua Station and Matanui Station near Gisborne and the details…
  Resource

  • Overseas investment

• Land tenure and farmland advertising for renewable energy projects under the Overseas Investment Act 2005

  The response provides information about Toitū Te Whenua's view on land tenure and farmland advertising for renewable energy projects.
  Resource

  • Overseas investment

• Getting to the root of farm to forestry conversions

  When it comes to overseas investors converting farmland to forestry, complex foreign investment rules can make it hard to see the forest for the trees.
  News

  • Overseas investment

• Overseas investment pathways data

  On this page, data can be sorted to show which investment pathway was used to make a decision, along with related information such as the total investment, total land area, and the average time it takes to assess by investment pathway.
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  • Overseas investment