Company and organisation registers

Key points:

You can search ASIC’s registers for information about a company or some other organisation types.
You can search by the organisation name, a registered business name they hold, or a unique identifier such as an ACN.
Some information on the register is available for free.
You can use ASIC's company alert service to keep track of changes made to companies.

About the company and organisation registers

ASIC maintains registers of Australian companies and several other types of organisations. Anyone can search the registers to find information about a company or organisation.

The following is a list of the types of organisations you can search ASIC registers for. We have included links to information about how to register them.

Search company and organisation registers

Search for a company or organisation

Under ‘Search ASIC Registers’, select ‘Search within: Organisation & Business names’. Enter the term you want to search by. This can be:

a company or organisation name
a business name held by the company or organisation
an ACN, ARBN or Australian Registered Scheme Number (ARSN).

For step-by-step instructions, see our user guide: Organisation-and-business-name-search (PDF 935 KB)

Information available on these registers

Free information

Basic information about the company or organisation is available for free. This includes:

company or organisation name
type of company or organisation
ABN, ACN, ARBN or ARSN
registration date
next review date
the suburb, state and postcode of the registered office address
a list of documents lodged with ASIC.

Paid information

If you need more information than what you can get for free, you can buy more information online.

You will see the information that you can buy below the free information in the search results. This information includes company extracts, which contain details of the company's officeholders.

Important change

Officeholder addresses are not available in this ASIC extract.

ASIC implemented this change in response to broader privacy and safety concerns including the potential to access personal information, heightened concerns around personal safety and to reduce the risk of identity theft and cyber-crime.

You can find more information in our recent news item.

Please contact us if you have any questions about this change.

Australian companies

You can buy:

current company extract – fee $10. See an example (PDF 499 KB).
current and historical company extract – fee $20. See an example (PDF 524 KB).
roles and relationship extract – fee $23. See an example (PDF 332 KB).
certificate of registration – fee $23. See an example (PDF 3.5 MB).

Learn more: Guide to reading current company extracts (PDF 501 KB)

Registered Australian bodies

You can buy:

current registered body extract – fee $10. See an example (PDF 735 KB).
current and historical registered body extract – fee $20. See an example (PDF 840 KB).

Foreign companies

You can buy:

Current foreign company extract – fee $10. See an example (PDF 628 KB).
Current and historical foreign company extract – fee $20. See an example (PDF 866 KB).

Managed investment schemes

You can buy:

current managed investment scheme extract – fee $10. See an example (PDF 337 KB).
current and historical managed investment scheme extract – fee $20. See an example (PDF 351 KB).

Copies of documents

You can buy copies of publicly available documents that have been lodged with ASIC in relation to the company or organisation. You will see the publicly available documents below the free information.

Handy hint: The last 3 documents lodged will appear first, but you can select 'show all documents' to see more.

Fees for copies of documents are:

$20 for a document of less than 10 pages.
$50 for a document of 10 pages or more.

Documents lodged may include personal information

If you are a company officeholder and worried about your safety, you can ask us to hide your residential address.

Search by document number

You can search by a specific document number if you know it. Go to the register search page, then under ‘Search ASIC Registers’, select ‘Search within: Documents’ instead of ‘Organisation & Business Names’.

Certified copies

You can get a certified copy of publicly available documents mailed to you.

A certified copy has an original ASIC stamp and signature. The stamp and signature show that the copy is a true copy of the document on our register. It can be accepted as evidence in court.

We cannot certify copies of registration certificates, register extracts or some documents relating to insurance brokers or foreign insurance agents.

Fees for certified copies of documents are:

$43 for a document of less than 10 pages.
$73 for a document of 10 pages or more.

Country-by-country reporting entity documents

Country-by-country (CBC) reporting entities are a subset of significant global entities (SGEs). They are companies that may be required by law to lodge general purpose financial statements with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). The ATO passes these statements on to ASIC. You can then buy copies of these statements through our register. These statements are labelled with the document type SGEF.

For more information about SGEs, CBC reporting entities and general purpose financial statements, contact GPFS@ato.gov.au.

Company alert service

The company alert service is a free service that allows you to track certain changes made to a company. These are changes contained in documents that have been lodged with us.

Find out more: Company alert service