🇦🇺 Australia

Overview

AiPrise verifies Australian businesses against the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) company register. A business verification returns the company profile, directors, company secretaries and shareholders. Businesses known only by their Australian Business Number (ABN) return a profile.

Coverage

Data point	Returned	Note
Company profile	Yes	Legal name, legal form, status, registration date, registered address
Directors	Yes	Registered companies only
Company secretaries	Yes	Normalised role `LEGAL_REPRESENTATIVE`
Shareholders	Yes	Registered companies only, with share counts
Ultimate holding company	Yes, when listed	Normalised role `UNKNOWN`
Ultimate beneficial owners	No

Document	Returned
Register extract	No
Articles of association	No
Financial statements	No
UBO extract	No

Speed

Step	Typical	9 in 10 within
Business verification (company data, officers, shareholders)	16 seconds	85 seconds

These are typical times from production, not a service-level commitment: set timeouts well above them, or use callbacks.

Company types

Company type	Legal forms	Covered	What to expect
Proprietary company	Pty Ltd (Australian Proprietary Company Limited By Shares)	Yes	Full data: directors, secretaries, shareholders
Public company	Ltd (Australian Public Company Limited By Shares)	Yes	Full data
Foreign company	Foreign Company (Overseas), Registered Australian Body	Yes	Profile and officers
Managed investment scheme	Managed Investment Scheme	Yes	Profile
Sole trader and other ABN holders	ABN only	Yes	Profile only; no legal form, officers or shareholders

Sources

Register	What it gives
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)	Company profile, officers, shareholders

Identifiers

Send the company number as business_entity_id, with country_code set to AU.

Identifier	Format	Example
Australian Company Number (ACN)	9 digits	`123456789`
Australian Business Number (ABN)	11 digits	`12123456789`
ARBN / ARSN (foreign companies, managed investment schemes)	9 digits, returned with an `ARBN:` or `ARSN:` prefix	`ARBN: 123456789`

You can also search by legal name.

Statuses and legal forms

Every result carries the register's own status in registration_info.status and an AiPrise status in registration_info.normalised_status. The normalised status is one of Active, Suspended, Dormant, Dissolved / Struck Off, In Liquidation / Insolvency or Unknown.

Register status	Normalised status
Registered	Active
Active	Active
Deregistered	Dissolved / Struck Off
Cancelled	Dissolved / Struck Off
Not Registered	Unknown

Legal forms come back in entity_type as ASIC writes them, for example Australian Proprietary Company Limited By Shares and Australian Public Company Limited By Shares.

Quirks and gotchas

Country-specific behaviour to know before you integrate.

Quirk	Details
ACN or ABN	Send the 9-digit ACN for a company. An 11-digit ABN also works. About 1 in 10 results are ABN records only: status `Active`, no legal form and no officers.
Deregistered companies have no officers	About 1 in 5 results are deregistered companies. They come back without directors or shareholders.
Secretaries are legal representatives	Company secretaries come back with the normalised role `LEGAL_REPRESENTATIVE`.
Ownership from share counts	When the register gives share counts but no percentage, the ownership percentage is calculated from the total shares.

Limits

UBOs and register documents are not returned.
Officers and shareholders are returned for registered companies only.