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Changes to how registered liquidators lodge forms with ASIC
Effective 30 March 2020, the following documents must be submitted through the ASIC Regulatory Portal:
- applications for assetless administration funding
- funded supplementary s533 reports.
For more information about these changes, see Registered liquidator transactions on the ASIC Regulatory Portal.
Other external administration and maintenance forms (outlined further bellow) remain in the registered liquidator portal.
Assetless Administration Fund
RG 109 Assetless Administration Fund: Funding criteria and guidelines has been withdrawn. The guidance relating to applications for funding from the Assetless Administration Fund is now published on the Australian Government’s grant information system GrantConnect in accordance with the Department of Finance’s requirements.
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Registering as a liquidator
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Overview
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RG 93 Reimbursing liquidator costs
RG 258 Registered Liquidators: Registration, disciplinary actions and insurance requirements
Obligations and duties
REP 514 Response to submissions on CP 276 Registered liquidators: Registration, disciplinary actions and insurance requirements
RG 20 Disclosure of convictions and proceedings
RG 258 Registered Liquidators: Registration, disciplinary actions and insurance requirements
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Regulatory index topic: Australian companies: Winding up companies and insolvent external administration
Reporting obligations
RG 16 External administrators—reporting and lodging
RG 174 Externally administered companies: Financial reporting and AGMs
Legislative instrument 2015/251 ASIC Corporations (Externally-Administered Bodies) (see 21-263MR; REP 703; CP 337 and submissions; and 21-009MR)
INFO 29 External administration – controller appointments and schemes of arrangements - most commonly lodged forms (see 21-176MR)
INFO 41 Insolvency: A glossary of terms
Other obligations and duties
RG 33 Security deposits
RG 81 Destruction of books
RG 82 External administration: deeds of company arrangement involving a creditors’ trust
RG 83 Reinstatement of companies
INFO 258 Continuing professional education requirements for registered liquidators
REP 428 Improving communication with directors of firms in liquidation
REP 573 Registered liquidators’ compliance with lodgement and publication requirements
ASIC's role
INFO 261 ASIC orders about creditor-defeating dispositions
RG 242 ASIC’s power to wind up abandoned companies
RG 109 Assetless Administration Fund: Funding criteria and guidelines (withdrawn)
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Changes to how registered liquidators lodge forms with ASIC (above)
Ceasing to be a liquidator
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Cancellation
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Disqualification
RG 258 Registered Liquidators: Registration, disciplinary actions and insurance requirements
Lodging forms and documents
Important notice: Registered liquidators can now submit certain statutory reports, all applications for assetless administration funding, and requests for ASIC's assistance in an external administration to us via the ASIC Regulatory Portal: see Changes to how registered liquidators lodge forms with ASIC (above)
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RG 16 External administrators: reporting and lodging
INFO 29 External administration – controller appointments and schemes of arrangements - most commonly lodged forms
RG 64 Failure to lodge documents
RG 258 Registered Liquidators: registration, ongoing obligations and insurance
Information for directors, employees, creditors and shareholders
INFO 14 Bankruptcy and personal insolvency agreements
INFO 41 Insolvency: A glossary of terms
INFO 42 Insolvency for directors
INFO 43 Insolvency for investors and shareholders
INFO 45 Liquidation: A guide for creditors
INFO 46 Liquidation: A guide for employees
INFO 53 Directors: Obligations to external administrators
INFO 54 Receivership: A guide for creditors
INFO 55 Receivership: A guide for employees
INFO 74 Voluntary administration: A guide for creditors
INFO 75 Voluntary administration: A guide for employees
INFO 84 Independence of external administrators: A guide for creditors
INFO 85 Approving fees: A guide for creditors
REP 756 Review of small business restructuring process (see 23-007MR)
Insolvency statistics
INFO 80 How to interpret ASIC insolvency statistics
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Background
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