New Zealand Interest on money claims (prescribed rate)
New Zealand Interest on money claims (prescribed rate) is 3.6183 percent, in force since 8 Sep 2026, cited to Per annum simple rate = quoted SixMonthlyAverage 0…. It was 3.6067 percent before that. Last checked against the official source on 22 Sep 2026.
Official source: Per annum simple rate = quoted SixMonthlyAverage 0… · Last checked 2026-09-22 · source fingerprint
New Zealand's court-awarded interest on money claims under the Interest on Money Claims Act 2016: the rolling six-month average of the RBNZ retail 6-month term-deposit rate plus 0.15 points — 3.6067% since 7 August 2026.
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| Current value | 3.6183 percent |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-09-08 |
| Official source | Per annum simple rate = quoted SixMonthlyAverage 0… — {"ReleaseDate":"2026-09-07","RBNZRate":0.0353,"SixMonthlyAverage":"0.034683333333333"}; premiums {"LiveDate":"2017-11-01","Premium":0.0015}. FAQ: "Adding the premium of 0.15% to th |
| Last verified | 2026-09-22 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Per annum simple rate = quoted SixMonthlyAverage 0.034683333333333 + quoted premium 0.0015 = 0.036183333333333 (3.618333...%). value 3.6183 is that sum rounded half-up to 4 d.p., the same presentation as the catalog's prior 3.6067 (2026-08-07 SixMonthlyAverage 0.034566666666667 + 0.0015). The six calculator RBNZRate observations behind the 2026-09-07 average, oldest to newest, are 0.0346 (2026-04-09), 0.0346 (2026-05-07), 0.0346 (2026-06-08), 0.0345 (2026-07-07), 0.0345 (2026-08-07), 0.0353 (2026-09-07); their mean equals the quoted SixMonthlyAverage. effective_from is 2026-09-08, the day after ReleaseDate 2026-09-07, per the Ministry FAQ and the calculator script (window starts ReleaseDate + 1 day). The prior catalog effective_from 2026-08-07 was the release date itself. rbnz.govt.nz B3 HTML and hb3.xlsx returned Cloudflare HTTP 403 on 2026-09-22, so 3.53% was not re-read from the Reserve Bank workbook; it is the RBNZRate field in the s 13 calculator. legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2016/0051/latest/whole.html served a JavaScript bot check; s 12 was read from https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2016/0051/latest/DLM6943345.html.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-07 | 3.6067 | Interest on Money Claims Act 2016, s 12(3): the base rate… |
Get it programmatically
curl https://ausref.dev/v1/nz/statutory-interest
# $0.005 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://ausref.dev/v1/nz/statutory-interest/history?from=2020-01-01
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