Creating and Updating Legal Authorities

Use the Create Legal Authorities page to create legal authorities with minimum required information.

To create legal authorities:

  1. Enter the organization name and any other identifying information.

  2. Enter address information.

Key fields are:

Identification Information region

Organization Name: The name of the organization.

Organization Number: This field uniquely identifies internally the organization. It is generated automatically or entered manually, depending on the setting of the HZ: Generate Party Number profile option.

Alias (optional): Enter the alternate name of the legal authority. This field can be used to enter the authority name in a different character set.

Pronunciation (optional): For countries where there is a different character set such as Japan, enter the legal authority name phonetically.

Address region:

Use the Address region to enter an address for the legal authority. Click on Save and Add Details to create contact persons and/or create additional addresses for other legal authority offices.

To update a legal authority:

  1. Search for a legal authority and click the update icon and update the legal authority using the same procedure you use to create a legal authority.

  2. Navigate to the General subtab and click the Update button to update identification information or to add/remove a legislative category.

  3. Navigate to the Contact Information subtab. You can create/update/remove a contact person in the Contacts region. You can create/update/remove an authority address in the Address region.