Notice is hereby given, pursuant to section 29 of the Financial Reporting Act 1993 (“the Act”), that the Accounting Standards Review Board has approved the Amendments
to New Zealand Equivalent to International Financial Reporting Standard 4 Insurance Contracts – The Scope of Insurance Activities and Differential Reporting Concessions (Amendments to NZ IFRS 4), which has been submitted
to it by the Financial Reporting Standards Board of the
New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.
The Amendments to NZ IFRS 4 are:
? to apply to all reporting entities and groups, the
Crown and all departments, offices of Parliament
and Crown entities, and all local authorities (each of which is defined in the Act) other than where expressly exempted by its terms, the terms of any other approved financial reporting standard or by law;
? to apply to annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2009; and
? a Regulation for the purposes of the Regulations (Disallowance) Act 1989.
Earlier application of the Amendments to NZ IFRS 4 is permitted only where an entity complies, or has complied, with New Zealand Equivalent to International Financial Reporting Standard 1 First-time Adoption of New Zealand Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards for an annual period beginning on or after 1 January 2005.
Copies of the Amendments to NZ IFRS 4 may be inspected free of charge at, and will be made available for purchase from, the offices of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, 40 Mercer Street (PO Box 11342), Wellington and 27–33 Ohinerau Street (PO Box 3334), Auckland.
Dated this 4th day of September 2007.
WARWICK HUNT, Chairman, Accounting Standards Review Board.