Notice is hereby given, pursuant to section 29 of the Financial Reporting Act 1993 (“the Act”), that the Accounting Standards Review Board has approved, as a financial reporting standard for the purposes of the Act, Amendments to New Zealand Equivalent to International Accounting Standard 19 Employee Benefits, which has been submitted to it by the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Amendments to New Zealand Equivalent to International Accounting Standard 19 Employee Benefits 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 accounting periods commencing on
or after 1 January 2007;
? to apply to annual accounting periods commencing on or after 1 January 2006 in respect of entities which elect to comply, or which have 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 accounting period commencing on or after
1 January 2005 and before 1 January 2007; and
? a Regulation for the purposes of the Regulations (Disallowance) Act 1989.
Early adoption of Amendments to New Zealand Equivalent to International Accounting Standard 19 Employee Benefits is permitted for annual accounting periods commencing on or after 1 January 2005 but only where an entity complies with New Zealand Equivalent to International Financial Reporting Standard 1 First-time Adoption of New Zealand Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards.
Copies of Amendments to New Zealand Equivalent to International Accounting Standard 19 Employee Benefits 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
(P.O. Box 11-342), Wellington and 27-33 Ohinerau
Street (P.O. Box 3334), Auckland.
Dated this 14th day of December 2005.
WARWICK HUNT, Chairman, Accounting Standards Review Board.