🇦🇺Australia

New to the API? Start with the jurisdictions overview, which explains how ordering, identifiers and documents work everywhere.

Company data here comes directly from Australian Business Register (ABR) and Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

What you can call here

What each operation does is the same everywhere and is explained on the jurisdictions overview.

How to search

Start with company search and jurisdictionCode: "au". Pass the name as companyName, a registration number as companyNumber, or both to narrow the result. Here companyNumber is read as acn.

Fields

To say exactly what you mean, send an advancedQuery instead. Australia understands these fields:

Examples

{  "jurisdictionCode": "au",  "advancedQuery": {    "name": "Telstra"  }}

Australia also accepts acn and abn.

Company identifiers

Search by passing the registration number as companyNumber — it is matched against the schemes this register can search on, so you do not name the scheme yourself. Not every scheme below is searchable; the rest label the values returned in a company’s identifiers.

Identifier notes

• An ABN alone is not proof of incorporation: ASIC's company register (ACN) covers only companies, while the ABR issues an ABN to any entity carrying on a business — including sole traders and trusts that were never incorporated and have no ACN. Matching on an ABN alone does not tell you whether you are looking at a company.
• A foreign company, or an entity registered under a different Australian law, is identified not by an ACN but by an ARBN (Australian Registered Body Number) — a 9-digit number in exactly the same shape as an ACN. The two schemes cannot be told apart by format alone; the entity's legal form (surfaced as "Registered Australian Body") tells you which one you are holding.
• The ACN returned for a company is formatted with the conventional Australian spacing — three groups of three digits, e.g. "004 085 616" — rather than as an unbroken 9-digit string. Strip whitespace before comparing it to a value you already hold.

Documents you can order

Documents with a shortcut are ordered directly by that name — for example register_extract.

Local notes

Gotchas

Glossary