Verified against primary sources as of 17 August 2026. Laws and figures change — confirm current requirements before relying on this page.
New Zealand: 3 verified country-layer records — mandatory scheme (2), conditional requirement (1). 1 accreditation body is listed for this jurisdiction. Each record below carries its legal instrument, who it binds, and the date it was last verified against its primary source.
- Records
- 3
- Accreditation bodies
- 1
National accreditation
Regional accreditation body serving this jurisdiction
Mandatory and regulatory records
Verified from primary sources, grouped by how binding each one is. None of these is a certificate; each carries the instrument it comes from and the date it was last checked.
Mandatory scheme
Conditional requirement
How this jurisdiction is structured
JAS-ANZ was established by international treaty, not a domestic law
The Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand was created by an intergovernmental agreement between Australia and New Zealand, signed 30 October 1991 (governance updated by a second agreement in 1998). It accredits certification bodies — management-system certifiers (e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 14001), product certification, personnel certification, inspection bodies and verification/validation bodies. It does not accredit laboratories.
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IANZ operates under a 2015 Act, not the 1972 one still cited by some sources
The Accreditation Council was created in 1972 under the Testing Laboratory Registration Act 1972 (No 36) — that Act was repealed on 21 October 2015. The Council today operates under the Standards and Accreditation Act 2015 (No 91), s.35, which empowers it to establish accreditation schemes, seek international recognition, and act as New Zealand's national Good Laboratory Practice monitoring authority. The Council is an autonomous Crown entity under the Crown Entities Act 2004; IANZ is its trading name / service-delivery arm. IANZ accredits laboratories (testing and calibration across chemistry, biology, electrical, mechanical, medical and metrology), inspection bodies, building consent authorities, and medical imaging providers — it does not accredit management-system certification bodies.
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Both bodies are Global ACI Full Members
IAF and ILAC closed on 1 January 2026, with 31 December 2025 signatories carried across with the same scope under the single successor, Global ACI. Both IANZ and JAS-ANZ appear in the Global ACI Full Members registry under a "New Zealand" filter — "Full Member" and "MRA signatory" are the same status under Global ACI's own terminology, not two different things.
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Find a JAS-ANZ accredited body or certified organisation
JAS-ANZ maintains two separate registers: one for the certification, inspection and verification bodies it accredits, and a separate one for the certificates those bodies have issued.
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Find an IANZ accredited organisation
IANZ's own directory lists the laboratories, inspection bodies, building consent authorities and medical imaging providers it has accredited.
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Incentive and support programs
All three programs below are confirmed to exist and be current, sourced as noted; two carry an open verification question flagged below. Callaghan Innovation, the R&D funder many third-party sources still name, was disestablished in 2025 — its R&D Tax Incentive role moved to Inland Revenue and MBIE jointly, without the underlying legislation changing. No rate, cap or budget figure is published here, per this library's standing policy on incentive figures pending re-verification.
R&D Tax Incentive (RDTI)
- Funder
- Inland Revenue and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) — jointly, since Callaghan Innovation's 2025 disestablishment
- What it provides
- A tax incentive for eligible research and development activity.
- Eligibility
- Businesses conducting eligible R&D activity in New Zealand; specific criteria set by Inland Revenue and MBIE.
Not yet confirmed: MBIE's own program page was found via search rather than a direct fetch of this URL — confirm details on it before relying on them (NZ-VQ-8).
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International Growth Fund
- Funder
- New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE)
- What it provides
- Contestable co-investment funding for export growth, open only to NZTE "Focus" customers by invitation.
- Eligibility
- Existing NZTE Focus customers; not an open public application.
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Regional Business Partner Network — Management Capability Development
- Funder
- NZTE and regional partner organisations
- What it provides
- Co-funded business-management-capability advisory support, delivered through a regional partner network.
- Eligibility
- New Zealand businesses; specific criteria set by the regional partner network.
Not yet confirmed: The program's own site (regionalbusinesspartners.co.nz) was not directly fetched this round — this record cites the NZTE page that names RBP as a delivery channel, not RBP's own page. Confirm against the program's own site before relying on details here (NZ-VQ-8).
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