Company/Corporate Register

What is a company register?

A company register is a set of documents that is needed by every company to be compliant with the Corporations Act 2001. This set of documents needs to be kept up to date as changes are made to the company, and are kept at either the registered office, or principal place of business.

If you register your company directly with ASIC, you will need to provide the company register yourself. If you perform the registration through an ASIC registered agent like eCompanies, the corporate register is normally included as part of the service.

What documents are contained in a company register?

At registration the minimum documentation required to satisfy the Corporations Act 2001 is:

• Completed Director and Secretary consent forms
• Completed applications for shares
• Minutes of meetings of Directors
• Share Certificates
• Share member registry
• Register of Option Holders (If you have them)
• Register of Debentures (If you have them)
• Consent to use registered office (if the company does not occupy the registered office)

You are required to update these documents as changes are made.

What does eCompanies provide?

eCompanies provides the following compliant document pack tailored from your answers so there is nothing to fill out other than signing in the relevant places.

• Official certificate of registration and ACN
  issued by ASIC.
• Company officer consent forms
  All required company officer consent forms created from your answers and if required, consent to use address as registered office.
• Application for shares
  All required member share application forms created from your answers.
• Opening company minutes
  Contains all the resolutions for the formation of your company.
• Share member register
  Full register prepared with the relevant share & member details including class, issue price and balance.
• Other registers These include, Register of Options, Register of Debentures, Register of Directors, Company Seal Register, Forms Lodged Register.
• Share certificates
  Share Certificates for each holding member with individual serial numbers.
• Blank Forms
  Blank consents, share applications and share certificates.
• Constitution
  Constitution with Div 7A loan clauses
• Client Copy of Lodgement
  A copy of the Form 201 used to form your company.
• Optional shareholders agreement
  If your company has 2 or more shareholders and it is not an SMSF trustee we include a shareholders agreement

All documents are emailed in PDF format and provided as standard with any company registration performed through eCompanies. Microsoft Word versions of the company register documents can also be downloaded from our client area at any time.

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