You must now use the Regulatory Portal to notify ASIC of changes of licensee details, changes to responsible manager details and changes of control, appointment of auditors and to submit annual financial statements.
Which portal?
Regulatory Portal
Use the Regulatory Portal for the majority of transactions, including applying, changing, varying, cancelling or suspending an AFS licence and submitting annual financial statements.
Regulatory Portal
Learn more:
AFS licensee portal
Use the AFS licensee portal to lodge PDS notifications and make applications for registration of managed investment schemes.
The Financial Advisers Register is immediately updated after appointing authorised representatives. You can find the numbers allocated to your authorised representatives by browsing our Professional registers searach for AFS authorised representatives.
AFS licensees portal
Learn more about AFS licensee portal access.
Authorised representative portal
Use ASIC Connect if you are an authorised representative and you want to appoint authorised representatives. You an also update details of an authorised representative (including authorisations, addresses, etc), or to cease an authorised representative.
Note: For all online appointments, the register is updated immediately. You can find the number/s allocated to your authorised representatives by browsing our Professional registers and selecting AFS authorised representatives.
ASIC Connect
Learn how to appoint or update an authorised representative or financial adviser.
Changing your licence details through the Regulatory portal
Information for AFS licensees about changing licence details through ASIC's Regulatory Portal.
What details can you change using the Notify change of details of an Australian financial services (AFS) licence transaction?
Use the Notify change of details of an Australian financial services (AFS) licence transaction to:
- change the name of the licensee (not available to Australian registered body corporates)
- advise of obtaining an Australian business number (ABN)
- change your principal business address
- notify ASIC whether you use a website to carry on your financial services business
- change a website address from which you carry on your financial services business
- change the principal website address from which you carry on your financial services business
- change your address for service of notices
- add or remove a business name
- change details of your ongoing contact person
- change the details of your external dispute resolution scheme
- advise or modify the licensee’s continuing professional development (CPD) year.
Why must you notify ASIC?
As an AFS licensee, you must notify ASIC of changes within 10 business days of the change occurring. The only exception to this timeframe is to advise or change of CPD year which must be advised within 30 business days from the day the licence is granted or the day the CPD year is to begin if it a change.
If a licensee holds an ABN it is required to update its name on the Australian Business Register before completing a change of name of an AFS licence transaction.
For all notifications, the licensee will be asked the effective date of the change of details.
Change of responsible managers and change of control notifications
If you are notifying of a change in a responsible manager, or change of details for an existing responsible manager, you will need to complete the “Notify change of responsible manager details of an Australian financial services licence” transaction. For more information, see Change your responsible manager.
If you are notifying of a change in control of an AFS licensee, you will need to complete the “Notify ASIC of change in control of an Australian financial services licensee transaction. For more information see Change in control of AFS licensee.
Notifying ASIC about website addresses (AFS licensees)
What this is about
From 4 May 2026 AFS licensees are encouraged to inform ASIC whether they use a website address to carry on their financial services business.
It is important to inform ASIC regardless of whether you use a website to carry on your financial services business so ASIC can inform the public whether you operate online.
What you need to do
- Log into the Regulatory Portal and notify ASIC as to whether you use a website to carry on your financial services business.
- If you use one or more websites, provide ASIC with each website address you use to carry on your financial services business.
- Nominate one principal website address for your financial services business.
What ASIC will do
ASIC will publish your principal website address, and any other website addresses you have provided on the Professional Register Search from June 2026. This is intended to help reduce the risk of consumers being misled by fake website scams.
When and how to notify ASIC
You can notify ASIC about whether you use a website address (or addresses) to carry on your financial services business from 4 May 2026 through the ASIC Regulatory Portal.
Notifying ASIC about your ongoing contact person
As an AFS licensee, once you provide ASIC with details of your ongoing contact person, you must keep them up to date.
Changes to your ongoing contact person, including their email address, can be updated via the Notify change of details of an Australian financial services licence transaction on the Regulatory Portal.
It is important to maintain your ongoing contact person with ASIC to ensure you receive important regulatory information in a timely manner.
How to lodge a notification of a change of details
You can use the Regulatory Portal to submit the notification of a change of details for an AFS licence. Any supporting documents (if required), can be provided as part of the transaction form. You do not need to send these documents separately to ASIC.
Lodgement fees
There is no fee if you lodge your Notify change of details of an Australian financial services (AFS) licence notification within 10 business days (or 30 business days in the case if advise of or modify CPD year.
The following late fees apply after 10 business days:
- Up to 1 month late - {Late01}
- More than 1 month - {Late02}
See fee payments and queries for more information.
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