• Companies Act, 2008 (Act No. 71 of 2008)
  • Notice No. 421 of 2009
  • Act
  • Chapter 1 : Interpretation, Purpose and Application
    • Part A : Interpretation
      • 1. Definitions
      • 2. Related and inter-related persons, and control
      • 3. Subsidiary relationships
      • 4. Solvency and liquidity test
      • 5. General interpretation of Act
      • 6. Anti-avoidance, exemptions and substantial compliance
    • Part B : Purpose and application
      • 7. Purposes of Act
      • 8. Categories of companies
      • 9. Modified application with respect to state-owned companies
      • 10. Modified application with respect to non-profit companies
  • Chapter 2 : Formation, Administration and Dissolution of Companies
    • Part A : Reservation and registration of company names
      • 11. Criteria for names of companies
      • 12. Reservation of name and defensive names
    • Part B : Incorporation and legal status of companies
      • 13. Right to incorporate company or transfer registration of foreign company
      • 14. Registration of company
      • 15. Memorandum of Incorporation, shareholder agreements and rules of company
      • 16. Amending Memorandum of Incorporation
      • 17. Alterations, translations and consolidations of Memorandum of Incorporation
      • 18. Authenticity of versions of memorandum of incorporation
      • 19. Legal status of companies
      • 20. Validity of company actions
      • 21. Pre-incorporation contracts
      • 22. Reckless trading prohibited
    • Part C : Transparency, accountability and integrity of companies
      • 23. Registration of external companies and registered office
      • 24. Form and standards for company records
      • 25. Location of company records
      • 26. Access to company records
      • 27. Financial year of company
      • 28. Accounting records
      • 29. Financial statements
      • 30. Annual financial statements
      • 30A. Duty to prepare and present company's remuneration policy
      • 30B. Duty to prepare and present company's remuneration report
      • 31. Access to financial statements or related information
      • 32. Use of company name and registration number
      • 33. Annual return
      • 34. Additional accountability requirements for certain companies
    • Part D : Capitalisation of profit companies
      • 35. Legal nature of company shares and requirement to have shareholders
      • 36. Authorisation for shares
      • 37. Preferences, rights, limitations and other share terms
      • 38. Issuing shares
      • 38A. Validation of irregular creation, allotment or issuing of shares
      • 39. Subscription of shares
      • 40. Consideration for shares
      • 41. Shareholder approval for issuing shares in certain cases
      • 42. Options for subscription of securities
      • 43. Securities other than shares
      • 44. Financial assistance for subscription of securities
      • 45. Financial assistance
      • 46. Distributions must be authorised by board
      • 47. Capitalisation shares
      • 48. Company or subsidiary acquiring company's shares
    • Part E : Securities registration and transfer
      • 49. Securities to be evidenced by certificates or uncertificated
      • 50. Securities register and numbering
      • 51. Registration and transfer of certificated securities
      • 52. Registration of uncertificated securities
      • 53. Transfer of uncertificated securities
      • 54. Substitution of certificated or uncertificated securities
      • 55. Liability relating to uncertificated securities
      • 56. Beneficial interest in securities and beneficial ownership of company
    • Part F : Governance of companies
      • 57. Interpretation and application of Part
      • 58. Shareholder right to be represented by proxy
      • 59. Record date for determining shareholder rights
      • 60. Shareholders acting other than at meeting
      • 61. Shareholders meetings
      • 62. Notice of meetings
      • 63. Conduct of meetings
      • 64. Meeting quorum and adjournment
      • 65. Shareholder resolutions
      • 66. Board, directors and prescribed officers
      • 67. First director or directors
      • 68. Election of directors of profit companies
      • 69. Ineligibility and disqualification of persons to be director or prescribed officer
      • 70. Vacancies on board
      • 71. Removal of directors
      • 72. Board committees
      • 73. Board meetings
      • 74. Directors acting other than at meeting
      • 75. Director's personal financial interests
      • 76. Standards of directors conduct
      • 77. Liability of directors and prescribed officers
      • 78. Indemnification and directors' insurance
    • Part G : Winding-up of solvent companies and deregistering companies
      • 79. Winding-up of solvent companies
      • 80. Voluntary winding-up of solvent company
      • 81. Winding-up of solvent companies by court order
      • 82. Dissolution of companies and removal from register
      • 83. Effect of removal of company from register
  • Chapter 3 : Enhanced Accountability and Transparency
    • Part A : Application and general requirements of Chapter
      • 84. Application of Chapter
      • 85. Registration of company secretary and auditor
    • Part B : Company secretary
      • 86. Mandatory appointment of company secretary
      • 87. Juristic person or partnership may be appointed company secretary
      • 88. Duties of company secretary
      • 89. Resignation or removal of company secretary
    • Part C : Auditors
      • 90. Appointment of auditor
      • 91. Resignation of auditors and vacancies
      • 92. Rotation of auditors
      • 93. Rights and restricted functions of auditors
    • Part D : Audit committees
      • 94. Audit committees
  • Chapter 4 : Public Offerings of Company Securities
    • 95. Application and interpretation of Chapter
    • 96. Offers that are not offers to public
    • 97. Standards for qualifying employee share schemes
    • 98. Advertisements relating to offers
    • 99. General restrictions on offers to public
    • 100. Requirements concerning prospectus
    • 101. Secondary offers to public
    • 102. Consent to use of name in prospectus
    • 103. Variation of agreement mentioned in prospectus
    • 104. Liability for untrue statements in prospectus
    • 105. Liability of experts and others
    • 106. Responsibility for untrue statements in prospectus
    • 107. Time limit for allotment or acceptance
    • 108. Restrictions on allotment
    • 109. Voidable allotment
    • 110. Minimum interval before allotment or acceptance
    • 111. Conditional allotment if prospectus states securities to be listed
  • Chapter 5 : Fundamental Transactions, Takeovers and Offers
    • Part A : Approval for certain fundamental transactions
      • 112. Proposals to dispose of all or greater part of assets or undertaking
      • 113. Proposals for amalgamation or merger
      • 114. Proposals for scheme of arrangement
      • 115. Required approval for transactions contemplated in Part
      • 116. Implementation of amalgamation or merger
    • Part B : Authority of Panel and Takeover Regulations
      • 117. Definitions applicable to this Part, Part C and Takeover Regulations
      • 118. Application of this Part, Part C and Takeover Regulations
      • 119. Panel regulation of affected transactions
      • 120. Takeover regulations
    • Part C : Regulation of affected transactions and offers
      • 121. General requirement concerning transactions and offers
      • 122. Required disclosure concerning certain share transactions
      • 123. Mandatory offers
      • 124. Compulsory acquisitions and squeeze out
      • 125. Comparable and partial offers
      • 126. Restrictions on frustrating action
      • 127. Prohibited dealings before and during an offer
  • Chapter 6 : Business Rescue and Compromise with Creditors
    • Part A : Business rescue proceedings
      • 128. Application and definitions applicable to Chapter
      • 129. Company resolution to begin business rescue proceedings
      • 130. Objections to company resolution
      • 131. Court order to begin business rescue proceedings
      • 132. Duration of business rescue proceedings
      • 133. General moratorium on legal proceedings against company
      • 134. Protection of property interests
      • 135. Post-commencement finance
      • 136. Effect of business rescue on employees and contracts
      • 137. Effect on shareholders and directors
    • Part B : Practitioner’s functions and terms of appointment
      • 138. Qualifications of practitioners
      • 139. Removal and replacement of practitioner
      • 140. General powers and duties of practitioners
      • 141. Investigation of affairs of company
      • 142. Directors of company to co-operate with and assist practitioner
      • 143. Remuneration of practitioner
    • Part C : Rights of affected persons during business rescue proceedings
      • 144. Rights of employees
      • 145. Participation by creditors
      • 146. Participation by holders of company's securities
      • 147. First meeting of creditors
      • 148. First meeting of employees' representatives
      • 149. Functions, duties and membership of committees of affected persons
    • Part D : Development and approval of business rescue plan
      • 150. Proposal of business rescue plan
      • 151. Meeting to determine future of company
      • 152. Consideration of business rescue plan
      • 153. Failure to adopt business rescue plan
      • 154. Discharge of debts and claims
    • Part E : Compromise with creditors
      • 155. Compromise between company and creditors
  • Chapter 7 : Remedies and Enforcement
    • Part A : General principles: Business Rescue and Compromise with Creditors
      • 156. Alternative procedures for addressing complaints or securing rights
      • 157. Extended standing to apply for remedies
      • 158. Remedies to promote purpose of Act
      • 159. Protection for whistle-blowers
    • Part B : Rights to seek specific remediess
      • 160. Disputes concerning reservation or registration of company names
      • 161. Application to protect rights of securities holders
      • 162. Application to declare director delinquent or under probation
      • 163. Relief from oppressive or prejudicial conduct or from abuse of separate juristic personality of company
      • 164. Dissenting shareholders appraisal rights
      • 165. Derivative actions
    • Part C : Resolution of disputes
      • 166. Alternative dispute resolution
      • 167. Dispute resolution may result in consent order
    • Part D : Complaints to Commission or Panel
      • 168. Initiating a complaint
      • 169. Investigation by Commission or Panel
      • 170. Outcome of investigation
      • 171. Issuance of compliance notices
      • 172. Objection to notices
      • 173. Consent orders
      • 174. Referral of complaints to court
      • 175. Administrative fines
    • Part E : Powers to support investigations and inspections
      • 176. Summons
      • 177. Authority to enter and search under warrant
      • 178. Powers to enter and search
      • 179. Conduct of entry and search
    • Part F : Companies Tribunal adjudication procedures
      • 180. Adjudication hearings before Tribunal
      • 181. Right to participate in hearing
      • 182. Powers of Tribunal adjudication hearing
      • 183. Rules of procedure
      • 184. Witnesses
  • Chapter 8 : Regulatory Agencies and Administration of Act
    • Part A : Companies and Intellectual Property Commission
      • 185. Establishment of Companies and Intellectual Property Commission
      • 186. Commission objectives
      • 187. Functions of Commission
      • 188. Reporting, research, public information and relations with other regulators
      • 189. Appointment of Commissioner
      • 190. Minister may direct policy and require investigation
      • 191. Establishment of specialist committees
      • 192. Constitution of specialist committees
    • Part B : Companies Tribunal
      • 193. Establishment of Companies Tribunal
      • 194. Appointment of Companies Tribunal
      • 195. Functions of Companies Tribunal
    • Part C : Takeover Regulation Panel
      • 196. Establishment of Takeover Regulation Panel
      • 197. Composition of Panel
      • 198. Chairperson and deputy chairpersons
      • 199. Meetings of Panel
      • 200. Executive of Panel
      • 201. Functions of Panel
      • 202. The Takeover Special Committee
    • Part D : Financial Reporting Standards Council
      • 203. Establishment and composition of Council
      • 204. Functions of Financial Reporting Standards Council
    • Part E : Administrative provisions applicable to agencies
      • 205. Qualifications for membership
      • 206. Conflicting interests of agency members
      • 207. Resignation, removal from office and vacancies
      • 208. Conflicting interests of employees
      • 209. Appointment of inspectors
      • 210. Finances
      • 211. Reviews and reports to Minister
      • 212. Confidential information
  • Chapter 9 : Offences, Miscellaneous Matters and General Provisions
    • Part A : Offences and penalties
      • 213. Breach of confidence
      • 214. False statements, reckless conduct and non-compliance
      • 215. Hindering administration of Act
      • 216. Penalties
      • 217. Magistrate's Court jurisdiction to impose penalties
    • Part B : Miscellaneous matters
      • 218. Civil actions
      • 219. Limited time for initiating complaints
      • 220. Serving documents
      • 221. Proof of facts
      • 222. State liability
    • Part C : Regulations, consequential matters and commencement
      • 223. Regulations
      • 224. Consequential amendments, repeal of laws and transitional arrangements
      • 225. Short title and commencement
  • Schedules
    • Schedule 1 : Provisions concerning non-profit companies
      • 1. Objects and policies
      • 2. Fundamental transactions
      • 3. Incorporators of non-profit company
      • 4. Members
      • 5. Directors
    • Schedule 2 : Conversion of Close Corporations to Companies
      • 1. Notice of conversion of close corporation
      • 2. Effect of conversion on legal status
    • Schedule 3 : Amendment of Laws
    • Schedule 4 : Legislation to be Enforced by Commission
    • Schedule 5 : Transitional Arrangements
      • 1. Interpretation
      • 2. Continuation of pre-existing companies
      • 3. Pending matters
      • 4. Memorandum of Incorporation and Rules
      • 5. Pre-incorporation contracts
      • 6. Par value of shares, treasury shares, capital accounts and share certificates
      • 7. Company finance and governance
      • 8. Company names and name reservations
      • 9. Continued application of previous Act to winding-up and liquidation
      • 10. Preservation and continuation of court proceedings and orders
      • 11. General preservation of regulations, rights, duties, notices and other instruments
      • 12. Transition of regulatory agencies
      • 13. Continued investigation and enforcement of previous Act
      • 14. Regulations
• Regulations
  • Companies Regulations, 2011
    • Notice No. R. 351 of 2011
    • Chapter 1 : General Provisions
      • Part A : Interpretation
        • 1. Short title
        • 2. Definitions
        • 3. Interpretation
      • Part B : Guidelines, Practice Notes, Forms, Notices and other documents
        • 4. Issuing of Guidelines and Practice Notes
        • 5. Forms and filing requirements
        • 6. Notice of availability of documents
        • 7. Delivery of documents
    • Chapter 2 : Formation, Administration and Dissolution of Companies
      • Part A : Reservation and Registration of Company Names
        • 8. Company names
        • 9. Reservation of company names
        • 10. Registration of defensive names
        • 11. Transfer of reserved names
        • 12. Abuse of name reservation system
        • 13. Disputes concerning company names
      • Part B : Incorporation and Legal Status of Companies
        • 14. Notice of Incorporation
        • 15. Memorandum of Incorporation
        • 16. Rules of a company
        • 17. Domestication of foreign companies
        • 18. Conversion of Close Corporations
        • 19. Reckless trading or trading under insolvent circumstances
      • Part C : Transparency, accountability and integrity of companies
        • 20. External Companies
        • 21. Registered office of company
        • 22. Company records
        • 23. Information to be kept concerning directors
        • 24. Access to company information
        • 25. Company financial year and accounting records
        • 26. Interpretation of regulations affecting transparency and accountability
        • 27. Financial Reporting Standards
        • 28. Categories of companies required to be audited
        • 29. Independent review of annual financial statements
        • 30. Company annual returns and other related filings
      • Part D : Capitalization of Profit Companies
        • 31. Conversion of nominal or par value shares, and related matters
      • Part E : Securities Registration and Transfer
        • 32. Company securities registers
        • 32A. Affected company's register of the disclosure of beneficial interest
        • 32B. Notification to the Commission of change to beneficial owners in securities register
        • 33. Instruction to convert certificated securities into uncertificated securities
        • 34. Duties of company
      • Part F : Governance of Companies
        • 35. Pre-incorporation contracts
        • 36. Uniform standards for providing information
        • 37. Record dates
        • 38. Prescribed officers of companies
        • 39. Directors and register of persons disqualified from serving as director
      • Part G : Winding up and Deregistering companies and external companies
        • 40. Winding-up, dissolution and de-registration of companies and external companies
        • 41. Transitional effect of previous regulations concerning insolvent companies
    • Chapter 3 : Enhanced Accountability and Transparency
      • 42. Qualifications for members of audit committees
      • 43. Social and Ethics Committee
      • 44. Appointment of auditor or company secretary
    • Chapter 4 :  Offerings of Company Securities
      • Part A : Offering Securities
        • 45. Time periods and threshold values
        • 46. Forms relating to securities offerings
      • Part B : Requirements Concerning Offering of Securities
        • 47. Interpretation
        • 48. Application
        • 49. Letters of allocation in respect of unlisted securities
        • 50. Rights offers in respect of listed securities
        • 51. General requirements for a prospectus
        • 52. Signing, date and date of issue, of prospectus
        • 53. Access to supporting documents
      • Part C : Items required to be included in a Prospectus
        • 54. General statement of required information
        • 55. Specific matters to be addressed in a prospectus for a limited offer
        • 56. Specific matters to be addressed in a prospectus for a general offer
        • 57. Name, address and incorporation
        • 58. Directors, other office holders, or material third parties
        • 59. History, state or affairs and prospects or company
        • 60. Share capital of the company
        • 61. Options or preferential rights in respect of shares
        • 62. Commissions paid or payable in respect of underwriting
        • 63. Material contracts
        • 64. Interest of directors and promoters
        • 65. Loans
        • 66. Shares issued or to be issued otherwise than for cash
        • 67. Property acquired or to be acquired
        • 68. Amounts paid or payable to promoters
        • 69. Preliminary expenses and issue expenses
        • 70. Purpose of the offer
        • 71. Time and date of the opening and of the closing of the offer
        • 72. Particulars of the offer
        • 73. Minimum subscription
        • 74. Statement as to adequacy of capital
        • 75. Report by directors as to material changes
        • 76. Statement as to listing on stock exchange
        • 77. Report by auditor where business undertaking to be acquired
        • 78. Report by auditor where company will acquire a subsidiary
        • 79. Report by auditor of company
        • 80. Requirements for prospectus of mining company
    • Chapter 5 : Fundamental Transactions and Takeover Regulations
      • Part A : Interpretation and Applications
        • 81. Definitions
        • 82. Beneficial Interests
        • 83. Effect of interests held by non-related persons
        • 84. Acting in concert
        • 85. Change in control
        • 86. Mandatory offers
        • 87. Comparable offers
        • 88. Partial Offers
        • 89. Fundamental Transactions
        • 90. Independent Experts
        • 91. Application to Private Companies
      • Part B : General Rules Respecting Negotiations and Offers
        • 92. Information to offerors
        • 93. Solicitation campaigns
        • 94. Consensual negotiations
        • 95. Confidentiality and Transparency
        • 96. Conditional Offers
        • 97. Variation in offers
        • 98. Dealings disclosure and announcement
      • Part C : Announcements and Offers
        • 99. The approach
        • 100. Cautionary and other announcements
        • 101. Firm intention announcement
        • 102. General timeline of offers
        • 103. Extension of offers
        • 104. Revision of offers
        • 105. Offers becoming unconditional
        • 106. Circulars
      • Part D : Duties and Conduct of Offeree and Directors
        • 107. Appointments to board of offeree
        • 108. Duties of directors of offeree regulated companies
        • 109. Requisite knowledge of independent board members
        • 110. Independent board opinion
        • 111. Securities dealings, pricing, confirmations and general requirements
        • 112. Acquisition of own securities by offeree
        • 113. Re-investment
        • 114. Sales during an offer period
        • 115. Waivers
      • Part E : Takeover Panel Procedures
        • 116. General Authority of the Panel
        • 117. All published documents to be approved
        • 118. Consultations and Rulings
        • 119. Procedure before the Executive Director and Takeover Special Committee at hearings
        • 120. Reviews
        • 121. Reporting to Panel
        • 121A. Notification to the Commission by an affected company
        • 122. Panel Services, fees and levies
    • Chapter 6 : Business Rescue
      • Part A : Business Rescue Proceedings
        • 123. Notices to be issued by a company concerning its business rescue proceedings
        • 124. Notices to be issued by affected persons concerning court proceedings
        • 125. Notices to be issued by practitioner concerning business rescue proceedings
      • Part B : Business Rescue Practitioners
        • 126. Accreditation of professions and licensing of business rescue practitioners
        • 127. Restrictions on practice
        • 128. Tariff of fees for business rescue practitioners
    • Chapter 7 : Complaints, Applications and Tribunal Hearings
      • Part A : Definitions Used in This Chapter
        • 129. Definitions
      • Part B : Forms and Notices with respect to certain remedies
        • 130. Request for Commission or Panel to act on behalf of complainant
        • 131. Notice of availability of system to receive confidential disclosures
      • Part C : Alternative Dispute Resolution
        • 132. Alternative dispute resolution procedures
        • 133. Forms of order resulting from alternative dispute resolution procedures
        • 134. Accreditation of alternative dispute resolution providers
      • Part D : Commission or Panel Complaint and Investigation Procedures
        • 135. Filing of complaints with the Commission
        • 136. Multiple complaints
        • 137. Investigation of complaints
        • 138. Resolving complaints by proposed consent order
        • 139. Compliance notices and certificates
        • 140. Procedures following investigation
      • Part E : Initiating Tribunal Procedures
        • 141. Complaint Referrals to the Tribunal
        • 142. Applications to the Tribunal in respect of matters other than complaints
        • 143. Answer
        • 144. Reply
        • 145. Amending documents and Notices of Motion
        • 146. Completion of file
        • 147. Late filing, extension and reduction of time
        • 148. Withdrawals and postponements
      • Part F : Conduct of Tribunal Proceedings
        • 149. Pre-hearing conferences
        • 150. Settlement conference
        • 151. Set down of matters
        • 152. Matters struck-off
        • 153. Default orders
        • 154. Conduct of bearings
        • 155. Record of hearing
        • 156. Costs and taxation
        • 157. Representation of parties
        • 158. Joinder or substitution of parties
        • 159. Intervenors
        • 160. Summoning witnesses
        • 161. Witness fees
        • 162. Interpreters and translators
      • Part G : Maximum Administrative Fines and Determination of Turnover
        • 163. Maximum administrative fines
        • 164. Manner of calculating assets and turnover
    • Chapter 8 : Regulatory Agencies and Administration
      • Part A : Regulatory Agency Offices and Functions
        • 165. Office hours and address of regulatory agencies
        • 166. Extension and condonation of time limits
        • 167. Appointment of recording officer and assignment of functions by responsible officer
        • 168. Filing documents
        • 169. Electronic filing and payments
        • 170. Fees
        • 171. Panel fees
        • 172. Regulatory agency notices
        • 173. Issuing documents by regulatory agency
        • 174. Content and standards for Commission registers
        • 175. Form of Annual Report
      • Part B : Access to Regulatory Agency Information and Records
        • 176. Restricted information
        • 177. Access to information
      • Part C : Exercise of Commission Exemption Functions
        • 178. Procedures relating to requests for exemption in terms of Section 9
        • 179. Procedures related to withdrawing exemptions
    • Annexures
      • Annexure 1
        • Table CR1 - Prescribed Forms
      • Annexure 2
        • Table CR 2A - Panel Fee Schedule (in terms of Regulations 122, 155, 170 and 171)
        • Table CR 2B - Commission Fee Schedule
      • Annexure 3
        • Table CR 3 - Methods and Times for Delivery of Documents
    • Forms
      • Form CoR 9.1 - Application to Reserve a Name
      • Form CoR 9.2 - Application to Extend a Name ...
      • Form CoR 9.3 - Notice Requiring Further Particulars ...
      • Form CoR 9.4 - Confirmation Notice of Name ...
      • Form CoR 9.5 - Notice Refusing Name Reservation ...
      • Form CoR 9.6 - Notice of Potentially Contested Name 
      • Form CoR 9.7 - Notice of Potentially Offensive Name
      • Form CoR 10.1 - Application for Defensive Name Registration
      • Form CoR 10.2 - Application to Renew a Defensive ...
      • Form CoR 11.1 - Application to Transfer a Reserved or ...
      • Form CoR 11.2 - Notice Refusing Name Transfer
      • Form  CoR 12.1 - Notice Alleging Reservation System ...
      • Form CoR 14.1 - Notice of Incorporation
        • Form CoR14.1 - Notice of Incorporation
        • Annexure A - Initial Directors of the Company
        • Annexure B - Alternative Names for the Company
        • Annexure C - Notice of Ring Fencing Provisions
        • Annexure D - Notice of Company Appointments
          • Form CoR 14.2 - Notice Rejecting a ...
      • Form CoR 14.3 - Registration Certificate
      • Form CoR 15.1A - Short Standard Form ...
        • Memorandum of Incorporation
        • Articles
          • Article 1
          • Article 2
          • Article 3
          • Article 4
      • Form CoR 15.1B - Long Standard Form ...
        • Memorandum of Incorporation
        • Articles
          • Article 1
          • Article 2
          • Article 3
          • Article 4
          • Article 5
          • Article 6
        • Schedules
          • Schedule 1 - Incorporation and nature ...
          • Schedule 2 - Company Securities
          • Schedule 3 -  Shareholders
          • Schedule 4 - Shareholders Meetings
          • Schedule 5 - Directors of the Company
      • Form CoR 15.1C - Short Standard Form ...
        • Memorandum of Incorporation
        • Articles
          • Article 1 - Incorporation and Nature of ...
          • Article 2 - Directors and Officers
      • Form CoR 15.1D - Long Standard Form ...
        • Memorandum of Incorporation
        • Articles
          • Article 1 - Incorporation and Nature ...
          • Article 2 - Directors and Officers
          • Article 3 - General Provisions
        • Schedules
          • Schedule 1 - Incorporation and Nature of the Company
          • Schedule 2 - Directors of the Company
      • Form CoR 15.1E - Long Standard Form ...
        • Memorandum of Incorporation
        • Articles
          • Article 1 - Incorporation and Nature ...
          • Article 2 - Rights of Members
          • Article 3 - Members Meetings
          • Article 4 - Directors and Officers
          • Article 3 - General Provisions
        • Schedules
          • Schedule 1 - Incorporation and nature ...
          • Schedule 2 - Rights of Members
          • Schedule 3 - Members Meetings
          • Schedule 4 - Directors of the Company
      • Form CoR 15.2 - Notice of Amendment ...
        • Notice of Amendment of Memorandum ...
        • Annexure A - Notice of Ring Fencing Provisions
      • Form CoR 15.3 - Notice of Alteration of ...
      • Form CoR 15.4 - Notice of Translation of ...
      • Form CoR 15.5 - Notice of Conoslidation ...
      • Form CoR 15.6 - Notice to Consolidate ...
      • Form CoR 16.1 - Notice Concerning Company Rules
      • Form CoR 16.2 - Notice of Results of Vote ...
      • Form CoR 17.1 - Application to Transfer Registration ...
      • Form CoR 17.2 - Notice Requiring Further Particulars
      • Form CoR 17.3 - Registration Certificate
      • Form CoR 17.4 - Refusal to Transfer Registration ...
      • Form CoR 18.1 - Application to Convert a Close Corporation
      • Form CoR 18.2 - Notice Requiring Further Particulars
      • Form CoR 18.3 - Registration Certificate
      • Form CoR 19.1 - Notice to Show Cause Regarding ...
      • Form CoR 19.2 - Confirmation Notice
      • Form CoR 20.1 - Registration of External Company
        • Registration of External Company
        • Annexure A - Directors of External Company
      • Form CoR 20.2 - Registration Certificate
      • Form CoR 21 - Notice of Change of Registered Office
      • Form CoR 22 - Notice of Location of Company Records
      • Form CoR 24 - Request for Access to Company Information
      • Form CoR 25 - Notice of Change of Financial Year End
      • Form CoR 30.1 - Annual Return
        • Form CoR 30.1 - Annual Return (Page 1)
        • Form CoR 30.1 - Annual Return (Page 2)
      • Form CoR 30.2 - Financial Accountability Supplement
      • Form CoR 30.3 - Annual Return (External Company)
      • Form CoR 31 - Notice of Board Resolution to ...
      • Form CoR 35.1 - Notice of Pre-Incorporation Contract
      • Form CoR 35.2 - Notice of Action concerning ...
      • Form CoR 36.1 - Security Holder Notice to Company and Proxies
      • Form CoR 36.2 - General Company Notice to ...
      • Form CoR 36.3 - General Company Notice to ...
      • Form CoR 36.4 - Notice of Director's Personal ...
      • Form CoR 39 - Notice of Change of Directors
      • Form CoR 40.1 - Notice of Resolution to Wind-up ...
      • Form CoR 40.2 - Notice of Foreign Registration of ...
      • Form CoR 40.3 - Demand Notice concerning Inactive ...
      • Form CoR 40.4 - Notice of Pending De-registration
      • Form CoR 40.5 - Application for Re-instatement of ...
      • Form CoR 44 - Notice of Change of Auditor or ...
      • Form CoR 46.1 - Notice of Employee Share Scheme
      • Form CoR 46.2 - Annual Certificate of Employee ...
      • Form CoR 46.3 - Application concerning rights offer ...
      • Form CoR 46.4 - Registration of Prospectus or ...
      • Form CoR 46.5 - Registration Certificate
      • Form CoR 46.6 - Application to exclude information ...
      • Form TRP 84 - Declaration of coming into or out ...
      • Form CoR 89 - Notice of Amalgamation or Merger
      • Form TRP 98 - Disclosure of dealings in ...
      • Form TRP 121.1 - Disclosure of acquisition or ...
      • Form TRP 121.2 - Notice of acquisition ...
      • Form CoR 123.1 - Notice of Beginning of Business ...
      • Form CoR 123.2 - Notice of Appointment of ...
      • Form CoR 123.3 - Notice of Decision Not to ...
      • Form CoR 125.1 - Business Rescue Status Report
      • Form CoR 125.2 - Notice of Termination of ...
      • Form CoR 125.3 - Notice of Substantial ...
      • Form CoR 126.1 - Application for Practitioner's Licence
      • Form CoR 126.2 - Registration Certificate
      • Form CTR 132.1 - Application for Alternative ...
      • Form CTR 132.2 - Referral for Alternative Dispute ...
      • Form CTR 132.3 - Certificate of Failed Alternative ...
      • Form CoR 134.1 - Application for Accreditation
      • Form CoR 134.2 - Registration Certificate
      • Form CoR 135.1 - Complaint
      • Form CoR 135.2 - Notice of Non-Investigation ...
      • Form CoR 137.1 - Notice to Investigate Complaint
      • Form CoR 137.2 - Summons to provide evidence ...
      • Form CoR 137.3 - Request for Additional Information
      • Form CoR 137.4 - Demand for Corrected Information
      • Form CoR 138 - Notice of Consent Order
      • Form CoR 139.1 - Compliance notice
      • Form CoR 139.2 - Compliance Certificate
      • Form CTR 140 - Complaint Referral
      • Form CoR 140.1 - Referral of Complaint to alternative authority
      • Form CoR 140.2 - Notice of Non-referral of Complaint
      • Form CTR 142 - Application for Relief
      • Form CTR 145 - Notice of Motion
      • Form CTR 147 - Application for Condonation
      • Form CTR 148 - Notice of Withdrawal ...
      • Form CTR 151 - Notice of hearing before ...
      • Form CTR 160 - Summons to appear ...
      • Form CoR 168 - Notice Challenging Filed ...
      • Form CoR 178 - Request for Additional ...
• Notices
  • Introduction of New Electronic Filing Method by way of Mobile Application (all called APP) for Company and Close Corporation Forms
  • Practice Note 01 of 2018 - Qualifications of Practitioners in terms of Section 138(1)
  • Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC)
    • Notice No. 761 of 2020
  • Business Rescue Continuing Professional Development Policy
    • Notice No. 882 of 2020
    • 1. Policy Statement
    • 2. Definitions and Interpretations
    • 3. Purpose
    • 4. Scope
    • 5. Roles and Responsibilities
    • 6. Background
    • 7. Policy requirements
    • 8. Reporting period
    • 9. Members who are member of various professional bodies
    • 10. Monitoring
    • 11. Exemptions
    • 12. Reinstatement
    • 13. Disciplinary actions and sanctions
    • 14. Conclusion
    • 15. Policy effective date and review
  • Submission of Annual Financial Statements using Generally Recognized Accounting Principles (GRAP) in XBRL
    • Notice No.1018 of 2020
  • Mandatory Submission of Annual Financial Statements using iXBRL by entities using Generally Recognized Accounting Principles (GRAP) as from 01 October 2021
    • Notice No. 207 of 2021
  • Practice Note 2 of 2022 - Certification Requirements for Documents Filed with the CIPC
  • Notice of Introduction of Online Filing of Notice of Location of Company Records (Form COR 22) for Companies
    • Notice No. 2390 of 2022
  • Domicilium et Executandi Requirement - Cell phone numbers, Email addresses of companies, close corporations, co-operatives, directors and members
    • Notice No. 3805 of 2023
• Proclamations
  • Commencement of The Companies Act, 2008