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## What's new

- **Charity registration numbers are checked in the Applicant portal.** When you map the
  `New Zealand Charities Register`'s charity number to a Field Tag, a `Short text` field carrying
  that tag now looks the number up in the Applicant's registration and Application forms, as it
  already did when your staff filled a form. The applicant sees the charity's name, its status and
  `Checked on` with the date under the field. Answers you have linked to the register fill in as
  they do for an ABN or an NZBN.

- **An unknown number does not stop the form.** If the register has no entry for the number, the
  card says so and the applicant can still submit.