This is the response received from the ASX in response to a query as to whether it was obligatory or optional to pay dividends to overseas holders by cheque should they be unable to receive dividends by direct credit. I take this to mean that the company needs to provide a cheque (although perhaps the first sentence implies that the registry may not necessarily undertake this for them?)

I might need to go back and check with a few of the registries regarding point 2, as that seems to suggest that any dividend should be able to be paid to a NZ account.

Thank you for your email.
Please be advised, we do not impose any rules directly on the Share Registries which pay dividends to shareholders.
Dividends paid in cash can be received:
1) by cheque (sent to your registered address); or

2) by direct credit (currently this facility is available for shareholders in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States).

It is obligatory to provide shareholders the above two methods of receiving dividends – ultimately it is the shareholder who makes this choice.