Information and steps on how to register a business name
Register a business nameTo renew a business name, you will need your account number or ABN handy.
Renewing your business nameThe ASIC Connect portal will allow you to:
The ASIC Connect portal will allow you to:
Within online services for business name holders, you can:
Information and steps on how to register a new business
Register a companyManage your company details via the company officeholder portal:
Download your company annual review statement from ASIC, which includes your annual invoice and payment details.
Lodge regulatory statements, documents and transactions in the Regulatory portal.
Within online services for company officeholders, you can:
Update your client details via the Registered agent portal.
Information about how you can update and/or cancel your registered agent registration.
Within online services for registered agents and authorised lodgers, you can:
Information and steps on how to apply for an Australian financial services (AFS) licence.
Applying for and managing an AFS licenceUpdate your AFS licence details and lodge financial document via the Regulatory portal.
Changing your licence details through the Regulatory PortalLog in to ASIC Connect to appoint and update AFS representative's details.
Lodge regulatory documents and transaction in the ASIC Regulatory Portal
You can register a managed investment scheme using the eLicensing system (not the ASIC regulatory portal).
Log in to the eLicensing systemYou can lodge FS88 PDS in-use notice using the eLicensing system (not the ASIC regulatory portal).
Log in to the eLicensing systemWithin online services for business name holders, you can:
Information and steps on how to apply for a credit licence.
Apply for a credit licenceUpdate your credit licence details and appoint credit representations via the Credit Licensee portal
Lodge regulatory documents and transactions in the ASIC Regulatory portal.
Within online services for credit licensees and credit representatives, you can:
Information and steps on how to apply for auditor or authorised audit company registration.
Applying for an auditor registrationUpdate your auditors details and submit annual statements via the Auditors portal.
Lodge regulatory documents and transactions in the ASIC Regulatory portal.
Apply and maintain your SMSF auditor registration via the Regulatory portal.
Within online services for SMSF auditors, you can:
Update your liquidator details and lodge external administration documents via the liquidator portal.
Lodge regulatory documents and transactions in the ASIC Regulatory portal.
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Information and steps on how to register a business name
Register a business nameTo renew a business name, you will need your account number or ABN handy.
Renewing your business nameThe ASIC Connect portal will allow you to:
The ASIC Connect portal will allow you to:
Within online services for business name holders, you can:
Information and steps on how to register a new business.
Register a companyManage your company details via the company officeholder portal:
Download your company annual review statement from ASIC, which includes your annual invoice and payment details.
Lodge regulatory statements, documents and transactions in the Regulatory portal.
Within online services for company officeholders, you can:
Update your client details via the Registered agent portal.
Information about how you can update and/or cancel your registered agent registration.
LoginWithin online services for registered agents and authorised lodgers, you can:
Information and steps on how to apply for an Australian financial services (AFS) licence.
Applying for and managing an AFS licenceUpdate your AFS licence details and lodge financial document via the Regulatory portal.
Changing your licence details through the Regulatory PortalLog in to ASIC Connect to appoint, register, update and cease AFS representatives details.
Lodge regulatory documents and transaction in the ASIC Regulatory Portal.
You can register a managed investment scheme using the eLicensing system (not the ASIC regulatory portal).
Log in to the eLicensing systemYou can lodge FS88 PDS in-use notice using the eLicensing system (not the ASIC regulatory portal).
Log in to the eLicensing systemWithin online services for business name holders, you can:
Information and steps on how to apply for a credit licence.
Apply for a credit licenceUpdate your credit licence details and appoint credit representations via the Credit Licensee portal.
Lodge regulatory documents and transactions in the ASIC Regulatory portal.
LoginWithin online services for credit licensees and credit representatives, you can:
Information and steps on how to apply for auditor or authorised audit company registration.
Applying for an auditor registrationUpdate your auditors details and submit annual statements via the Auditors portal.
Lodge regulatory documents and transactions in the ASIC Regulatory portal.
Apply and maintain your SMSF auditor registration via the Regulatory portal.
Within online services for SMSF auditors, you can:
Update your liquidator details and lodge external administration documents via the liquidator portal.
Lodge regulatory documents and transactions in the ASIC Regulatory portal.
Companies
A deregistered company has a mortgage over your property
A company that holds a mortgage over property may be deregistered without the mortgage being released. To be able to deal with that property including sell it, a property owner may need the mortgage released.
ASIC may - but is not obliged to - complete an outstanding obligation on behalf of a deregistered company and discharge/release a mortgage in the deregistered company's name.
Generally ASIC will consider an application to execute a discharge/release of mortgage where:
If you did not fully repay money owing under the mortgage before the mortgagee company was deregistered, please contact ASIC's Property Law Team via email to determine what options may be available to you. Please ensure you identify the deregistered company by name and ACN and provide a recent title search showing the mortgage registered in the deregistered company's name.
ASIC generally exercises its discretionary powers under the Act to deal with vested property as a last resort. You need to ensure the following alternative remedies are not available to you before you apply to ASIC for a discharge/release. The cost of alternative remedies by itself is not a sufficient basis for ASIC to exercise its powers to deal with property.
Before making an application for ASIC to deal with the property, you should ask via Top call centre questions. if reinstatement of the company by ASIC is available. If it is, then it will be more convenient and perhaps more cost-effective for you.
For more information about reinstatement of the company by ASIC, see Apply to ASIC to reinstate a company.
In some jurisdictions it might not be necessary for a discharge/release to be executed by ASIC. For example, the relevant state or territory land titles office Registrar may have power to remove/cancel a mortgage where the mortgage is satisfied and the mortgagee is deregistered, e.g. sections 147(2) and 148A of the Real Property Act 1886 (SA). You need to enquire with the relevant state/territory land titles office before making an application to ASIC.
ASIC, including ASIC on behalf of the Commonwealth, has no objection to the relevant titles office Registrar exercising their power to remove/cancel a mortgage without ASIC's execution of a discharge/release. You may wish to refer the titles office to this webpage.
If this remedy is available, then it will be cheaper and more convenient for you than making an application to ASIC.
If the alternative remedies outlined above are not available to you then you may wish to apply to ASIC's Property Law Team for a discharge/release of the mortgage.
Use this Checklist to prepare, and then submit, your application to ASIC.
Instructions for submitting your application are contained in the Checklist.
You will also need to complete the following indemnity:
This indemnity is to be used when making an application to ASIC's Property Law Team for the release or discharge of a mortgage over your property in the name of a deregistered company.
This is only a general guide as to ASIC's approach to the property and rights that pass to ASIC and the Commonwealth on deregistration of a company. This document does not represent legal advice and should not be interpreted as such. Each application or enquiry will be considered on its facts and decided on its individual merits, based on all the information available to ASIC at the time. We encourage you to seek your own professional advice to find out how the law applying to deregistered companies affects your individual circumstances.