Manage the ASIC address change process with ease
Updating company and director addresses with ASIC is easy to overlook. Here is what needs to be reported, when, and how to keep it simple for your clients.
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One critical yet often overlooked compliance task is keeping company and officeholder addresses up to date with ASIC. When an address changes and no one tells ASIC, notices go to the wrong place, review dates are missed and late fees follow.
Why address details matter
ASIC uses the addresses on its register to send annual statements, invoices and official correspondence. If these reach an old address, a company can fall behind on its obligations without knowing.
Which addresses ASIC records
- The company’s registered office
- Its principal place of business
- The residential address of each director and secretary
- Member addresses, for proprietary companies
Deadlines to know
Most changes to company details must be notified to ASIC within 28 days. A change of registered office generally takes effect seven days after it is lodged, unless a later date is given. Late notification attracts a late fee.
How to lodge a change
Changes are lodged with ASIC online, either by the company or by a registered agent acting for it. For firms managing many companies, building address checks into each client’s annual review keeps records accurate with little extra effort.
How Prime helps
Through Prime Compliance, change requests go straight to our team from the portal. We prepare and lodge the forms, confirm the update and keep the company profile in line with ASIC’s records.
This article is general information only and is not legal advice.
About the author
Hayley Whent
Corporate Compliance Team Leader · 15+ years in corporate compliance
Hayley leads work that keeps Prime’s client companies up to date with ASIC.
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