Central agency services

Sensitive claims service – Health provider registration

This service is to apply to register as a health provider to deliver sensitive claims services to ACC kiritaki.

End of year report

This service provides a way for charter school sponsors to submit their end of year reports and required contractual information. Through the form, sponsors upload performance measures, supporting documents, and evidence showing whether students and staff have met their agreed performance targets.

Annual Regulatory Report 2025–2026

This service is for registered community housing providers to submit their annual reporting and supporting documents following their Annual General Meeting or financial sign-off.

Active Investor Plus 

This service is for people to apply for a specific visa to be able to live and invest in New Zealand businesses.

Book an inspection

This service is for builders and developers who have partnered with Kāinga Ora to book inspections of building work.

Annual Returns – Companies Office

This service is for company directors to file their annual returns. It is a mobile-friendly service which allows directors to file their returns on the go. 

Going for Growth

This service is for the New Zealand public to provide Ministers with their feedback for the first version of Going for Growth.

Cosmetic products certificate

This service is for exporters to apply for a government certificate that confirms good manufacturing practices for the cosmetic products that they intend to export.

Registration of a trademark – Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ)

This service helps businesses and individuals apply for a New Zealand registered trade mark, with step-by-step guidance along the way.

Notification of an industrial or international exhibition – Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ)

This service is for industrial or international exhibitions recorded with IPONZ to provide an inventor or designer with the opportunity to showcase their invention or design without compromising the ability to protect their intellectual property.

Liquidation Statement of Affairs – New Zealand Insolvency and Trustee Service

This service is for directors of companies that have been placed into liquidation with the Insolvency and Trustee Service. The form allows the director to convey the company's position in a transparent manner.

Product recall notification – Consumer Protection

This service is used by suppliers to notify the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment about a voluntary product safety recall under the Fair Trading Act 1986 531A.

Ready application – eInvoicing NZ

This service is an application for companies that provide eInvoicing-ready software to be published on the eInvoicing website by the New Zealand Peppol Authority (Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment).

Gas Security Fund – Expression of Interest for funding –  Kānoa

This service collects project-specific information to help Kānoa and partner agencies assess alignment with the Gas Security Fund (GSF) objectives.

Regional Infrastructure Fund – Kānoa - Regional Economic Development and Investment Unit 

This service is for businesses to apply for capital funding to invest into new and existing regional infrastructure. 

Reporting forms for Regional Infrastructure Fund – Kānoa - Regional Economic Development and Investment Unit 

These 5 reporting forms are required for organisations who have received funding via the Regional Infrastructure Fund.

Primary Producer Finance Scheme (PPFS) – Kānoa - Regional Economic Development and Investment Unit 

This service is for recipients of the North Island Weather Events (NIWE) Primary Producer Finance Scheme, enabling them to report on project progress and impacts after receiving funding. 

Regional Strategic Partnership Fund (RSPF) reports

These 2 forms are required for organisations who have received funding via the Regional Strategic Partnership Fund.

Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) reporting form

This service is required by organisations who have received funding from the PGF..

Accreditation to test weighing and measuring instruments – Trading Standards

This service is for new applicants to apply to become accredited by MBIE Trading Standards under the Weights and Measures Act to test weighing and measuring instruments. It is also for existing Accredited Persons to maintain, amend an existing accreditation or add or remove a categories or people.

Standards verification request – Trading Standards

This service is used by businesses (primarily Accredited Persons) to request verification work from a Trading Standards laboratory before any activity begins.

Requesting the use of Trading Standards masses – Trading Standards

This service allows businesses to apply for weighing or measuring equipment to be approved for trade use in New Zealand.

Request for off-site work – Trading Standards

This service helps businesses to arrange for Trading Standards to carry out work at an off-site location for Accredited Persons or Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBUs).

Type approval application – Trading Standards

This service collects details and technical specifications of equipment seeking approval for trade use in New Zealand, including its intended application and any overseas approvals.

Consumer Data Right Accreditation – Consumer Data Right (CDR)

This service is for providers to apply to be an accredited party under the CDR Rules. 

Reporting forms for funds

These services are for reporting on: 

• He Taupae Fund that works to increase the technical capability of Māori organisations to build on their whenua. 
• He Taupua Fund that works to strengthen Māori organisations’ capability to deliver kaupapa Māori focused housing initiatives on their whenua.
• He Kūkū Ki Te Kāinga Fund that contributes to the construction or installation of homes on whenua Māori. 

Grant Funding application final insights report is a report on completion of the funding period and project where recipients must comment on how the work they have done is contributing directly, or indirectly, to achieving the outcomes using the Māori and Iwi Housing Innovation (MAIHI) Outcomes framework. 

New Zealand Customs uses FormBuilder for application forms.

Application for a deferred payment account

This service allows businesses to apply to defer payment of charges.

Application to be a Secure Exports Scheme partner

This service is for New Zealand businesses to apply to become a member of the Secure Exports Scheme. build and maintain internationally approved and recognised secure supply chains. 

Application for duty-free alcohol permits 

This service is for the application of permits for alcohol to be sourced duty-free for scientific, educational, or other commercial or industrial uses, except the manufacture of alcoholic beverages.

Application for Customs-controlled Areas 

This service is for manufacturers and businesses that store alcohol products but have not yet paid their excise duties to apply to be a Customs-controlled Area.

Part of an application to become an excise declarant

This service is part of an application to become an excise declarant and is designed to evaluate understanding of excise declaration requirements. 

Regional Data Explorer feedback form

This service captures when users last accessed the Regional Data Explorer tool, how useful they found it, topics of interest, usage frequency, overall rating, and suggestions for improvement. 

Social Investment Fund feedback form

This service is used to gather feedback on the Social Investment Fund application process to understand applicant experiences and identify areas for improvement.