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Banned and disqualified registers

Key points:

  • ASIC keeps registers of people and organisations that are disqualified or banned from roles in corporations, financial services or the credit industry.
  • It’s a good idea to check people and organisations before you deal with them.
  • You can search 6 ASIC registers at once using our ‘Banned & Disqualified’ search.

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Information available through this search

This search gives you information about people and organisations who are not allowed to:

  • be involved in managing a corporation
  • audit self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs)
  • work in the Australian financial services or credit industry.

This information comes from 6 different ASIC registers:

The last two registers are from before ASIC issued AFS licences.

Details you can get

You can see these details for free:

  • the name of the person or organisation
  • the type of ban or disqualification
  • when it started
  • whether it is permanent or temporary
  • when it will end, if it is temporary.

You can buy documents that give you more information.

Steps for searching for a person

On the ASIC Connect search page:

  • choose ‘Banned & Disqualified’ from the drop-down menu
  • enter the person’s family and given names and select Go.

If the person is banned or disqualified, you will see their details.

Steps for searching for an organisation

You can go straight to the alphabetical list of banned and disqualified organisations. The list is short enough to scroll through.

Other registers to search

There are some banned or disqualified people who will not appear when you use this search. You will need to search for them on another register.

Register of disqualified officers

The Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC) has a register of disqualified officers. These people are not allowed to manage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations and they are automatically disqualified from managing companies registered under the Corporations Act 2001.

Court enforceable undertakings register

A court enforceable undertaking is a legal agreement between a person or organisation and ASIC. It includes one or more commitments (‘undertakings’) by that person or organisation. ASIC accepts court enforceable undertakings to address breaches of the law.

When ASIC accepts an undertaking from a person or organisation, they will appear on our court enforceable undertakings register. They will not always appear on the banned and disqualified registers. You can search for a person or organisation on our court enforceable undertakings register.

Disqualified trustees register

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has a register of disqualified trustees. This lists people who are disqualified from being a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) trustee.