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Reprint as at 1 April 2014 Financial Reporting Act (Asian Development Bank) Exemption Notice 2009 (SR 2009/121) Financial Reporting Act (Asian Development Bank) Exemption Notice 2009: expired, on 1 April 2014, by clause 3.

Pursuant to section 35A of the Financial Reporting Act 1993, the Securities Commission gives the following notice (to which is ap- pended a statement of reasons of the Securities Commission).
Contents Title Commencement Expiry Application Interpretation Exemptions from sections 10(1), 11, 15(1), 16, and 18(1) of Act Conditions of exemptions Page 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 Note Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

This notice is administered by the Securities Commission.
1 cl 1 Financial Reporting Act (Asian Development Bank) Exemption Notice 2009 Reprinted as at 1 April 2014 Notice Title This notice is the Financial Reporting Act (Asian Develop- ment Bank) Exemption Notice 2009.

Commencement This notice comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.

Expiry This notice expires on the close of 31 March 2014.
Application An exemption granted by this notice applies to the following accounting periods of the ADB: (a) the accounting period that ended on 31 December 2008; and subsequent accounting periods.
(b) Interpretation In this notice, unless the context otherwise requires,— Act means the Financial Reporting Act 1993 ADB means the Asian Development Bank of which the New Zealand Government is a member under the International Fi- nance Agreements Amendment Act 1966 IFRS means— (a) International Financial Reporting Standards and Inter- national Accounting Standards that have been issued or adopted by the International Accounting Standards Board in accordance with the constitution of the Inter- national Accounting Standards Committee Foundation; and interpretations by the International Financial final Reporting Interpretations Committee approved by the International Accounting Standards Board in accord- ance with that constitution (b) specified financial statements means the audited annual fi- nancial statements that are required to be prepared in respect (1) 2 Reprinted as at 1 April 2014 Financial Reporting Act (Asian Development Bank) Exemption Notice 2009 cl 7 of the ADB under the agreement establishing the ADB and that are filed under the laws of the United States of America US GAAP means generally accepted accounting practice in the United States of America.
(2) Any term or expression that is defined in the Act and used, but not defined, in this notice has the same meaning as in the Act.

6 7 Exemptions from sections 10(1), 11, 15(1), 16, and 18(1) of Act Every director of the ADB is exempted from sections 10(1), 11, 15(1), 16, and 18(1) of the Act in respect of the ADB.
(b) Conditions of exemptions The exemptions in clause 6 are subject to the conditions that— the specified financial statements comply with US (a) GAAP or IFRS; and if, in complying with US GAAP or IFRS, the specified financial statements do not give a true and fair view of the matters to which they relate, the directors of the ADB add information and explanations as required to give a true and fair view of those matters; and the specified financial statements are delivered to the Registrar, annually, before the date on which financial statements for the ADB would, but for the exemptions in clause 6, be required to be delivered for registration under the Act; and the specified financial statements include, or are accom- panied by, a report prepared by the auditor of the finan- cial statements that complies with the requirements of the laws of the United States of America.
(d) (c) Dated at Wellington this 5th day of May 2009.

The Common Seal of the Securities Commission was affixed in the presence of: 3 Statement of reasons Financial Reporting Act (Asian Development Bank) Exemption Notice 2009 Reprinted as at 1 April 2014 [Seal] J Diplock, Chairperson.
Statement of reasons This notice, which comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette and expires on 31 March 2014, exempts the directors of the Asian Development Bank (the ADB) from various provisions of the Financial Reporting Act 1993 (the Act).

The effect of the exemptions is to provide relief to the directors of the ADB from requirements of the Act relating to the preparation, content, auditing, and filing of financial statements.
The exemptions are granted on the conditions that the ADB prepares and publicly files financial statements that it is required to file under the laws of the United States of America (the United States), that those finan- cial statements comply with generally accepted accounting practice in the United States (US GAAP) or International Financial Report- ing Standards (IFRS), that they include or are accompanied by an auditor’s report, and that the directors of the ADB add information or explanations as required to ensure that they give a true and fair view of the matters to which they relate.
The Securities Commission (the Commission) must not grant an ex- emption under section 35A of the Act unless it is satisfied that— • the exemption would not cause significant detriment to sub- scribers for the securities of the issuer that are members of the public in New Zealand, having regard to the financial report- ing requirements that must be complied with in relation to the issuer under the law in force in the country where the issuer is incorporated or constituted; and the extent of the exemption is not broader than what is rea- sonably necessary to address the matters that gave rise to the exemption.
• The Commission is satisfied that these requirements are met in the present case.

The ADB is not incorporated in any jurisdiction.

The 4 Reprinted as at 1 April 2014 Financial Reporting Act (Asian Development Bank) Exemption Notice 2009 Statement of reasons ADB files its financial statements under the laws of the United States.

The Commission has accordingly treated the ADB as having been constituted in the United States for the purposes of section 35A of the Act.
The Commission considers that it is appropriate to grant these ex- emptions for the following reasons: • there will not be any significant detriment to subscribers for the ADB’s securities who are members of the public in New Zealand because— • • the ADB is subject to specific financial reporting and filing requirements under the laws of the United States, and the conditions of the exemptions require the finan- cial statements registered in New Zealand to comply with US GAAP or IFRS: the ADB is an issuer under New Zealand law by reason of having offered securities in New Zealand using its United States offer documents and accounts under the Securities Act (Asian Development Bank) Exemption Notice 2009.
The exemption allows ongoing financial reporting requirements to be consistent with the initial offer documents provided to subscribers: • • • the Commission has had regard to the financial reporting and audit requirements that must be complied with by the ADB under the agreement establishing the ADB and under United States law: the Commission is satisfied that the financial statements pre- pared under US GAAP or IFRS provide sufficient information to avoid any detriment to subscribers: the exemptions are not broader than is required because the ADB is still required to prepare, have audited, and publicly file its financial statements in New Zealand, but may only do so on the basis of US GAAP or IFRS.
Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 7 May 2009.

5 Notes Financial Reporting Act (Asian Development Bank) Exemption Notice 2009 Reprinted as at 1 April 2014 Reprints notes 1 2 3 General This is a reprint of the Financial Reporting Act (Asian Devel- opment Bank) Exemption Notice 2009 that incorporates all the amendments to that notice as at the date of the last amendment to it.
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4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint Financial Reporting Act (Asian Development Bank) Exemption Notice 2009 (SR 2009/121): clause 3 12 6 Wellington, New Zealand: Published under the authority of the New Zealand Government—2014