Confirming your authority
Before you can update or change a business’s details on the NZBN Register you need to confirm you have the authority to do so. It could be your own business, or someone else’s.
If you secured an NZBN for a sole trader, partnership or trust, you’ll have authority over that business automatically, and you’ll be able to make changes right away.
If not, you’ll need to confirm that you are authorised to manage information on behalf of the business.
NZBN Authority helps to ensure that the right people are able to update information about your business.
How to confirm your authority
To confirm your authority to update information for a business, here’s what to do:
- Search for the business on the NZBN Register
- Once you’ve found it, select ‘Get access to update these details’
What happens next depends on the type of business it is.
Search for a business to confirm authority
What you can do once you’ve confirmed your authority
Once you’ve confirmed your authority to act for a business, you can update the information we hold about it on the NZBN Register.
You can make changes to your NZBN details via MyNZBN at any time.
See the list of businesses you can manage
Granting and revoking authority over your NZBN
If you own a business, or are a director of a company, you can grant authority to someone else to update company details. For example, you might want to grant authority to your accountant. You can also revoke an authority, at any time.
Granting authority for companies
If you’re the director of a company and you have authority, you can grant authority to someone else. Once that person initiates the process to get access (as described above), you can grant them authority to manage the details of your business on the NZBN Register, via the ‘Manage authorities’ page of MyNZBN.
Granting authority for sole traders, partnerships and trusts
If you have authority over a sole trader, partnership or trust, you can grant someone else authority via your NZBN dashboard. You’ll simply need the email address of the person you’re granting authority to.
The steps are:
- Log in to your NZBN dashboard
- From 'My Businesses' select the business you want to grant authority over
- Click on the 'Maintain Authority' tab
- Select 'Grant Authority' from the menu
- Enter the person's email address, and choose 'Apply'
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Revoking an authority
You can revoke an existing authority too. For example, if you change your solicitor or accountant, you may want to revoke an authority they may hold. You can revoke authorities via MyNZBN
Your own authority
If you’re a director of a company, or a sole trader, partner of a partnership, or trustee of a trust, you can't revoke your own authority.