---
id: "nz_company_number"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["companies"]
country: ["NZ"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 85
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/nz_company_number"
---

# New Zealand Companies Office number (`nz_company_number`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Number that the New Zealand Companies Office gives a company, an incorporated society or a charitable trust board in its registers. The Charities Register gives it as CompaniesOfficeNumber, with N/A or - for charities that are not on a Companies Office register.

- Parent datatype: `id`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Companies/business/organizations (companies)
- Countries: New Zealand (NZ)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{1,8}$
```

## Examples

- `50166612` — Charities Register
- `213565` — Charities Register
- `8260780` — Charities Register
- `N/A` (invalid example) — Placeholder

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 0 match the field name, 1 match values.

- `nzcompanynumbervalue` (data, `nz/nz_orgs.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.companiesoffice.govt.nz/>

## Quality

Score 85/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/nz_company_number.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/NZ/companies/nz_company_number.yaml>