ASIC form codes and descriptions API

Every document lodged with ASIC carries a form code: a Form 201 registers a company, a Form 484 changes company details, a Form 505 notifies the appointment or cessation of an external administrator, a Form 388 lodges a financial report, and a Form 6010 applies for voluntary deregistration. Document lists, person extracts and register extracts return the form code alongside each document, and this endpoint gives you the full schedule of codes and descriptions so you can label documents, build a form-code filter, or group lodgements the way ASIC's Company Alert service does. It is free and never billed; see the purchasing guide for which endpoints are.

Query parameters

Categories

ASIC's Company Alert service groups documents into categories so subscribers can be notified about the kinds of lodgement they care about. The same categories are available here.

Example request

curl "https://api.asicapi.dev/v1/reference/forms?category=internal-administration" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ASICAPI_KEY"

Example response

{
  "object": "list",
  "data": [
    { "object": "form", "formCode": "201", "description": "Application for registration as an Australian company", "category": "internal-administration" },
    { "object": "form", "formCode": "205", "description": "Notification of resolution", "category": "internal-administration" },
    { "object": "form", "formCode": "370", "description": "Notification by officeholder of resignation or retirement", "category": "internal-administration" },
    { "object": "form", "formCode": "388", "description": "Copy of financial statements and reports", "category": "internal-administration" },
    { "object": "form", "formCode": "484", "description": "Change to company details", "category": "internal-administration" },
    { "object": "form", "formCode": "505", "description": "Notification of appointment or cessation of an external administrator", "category": "internal-administration" },
    { "object": "form", "formCode": "6010", "description": "Application for voluntary deregistration of a company", "category": "internal-administration" },
    { "object": "form", "formCode": "902", "description": "Supplementary document", "category": "internal-administration" }
  ],
  "hasMore": true,
  "nextCursor": "eyJvZmZzZXQiOjUwfQ",
  "totalCount": 212
}

Response fields

Errors

Notes from the ASIC register

• One category per request. ASIC's form schedule service accepts either all forms or exactly one Alert category. Request each category separately if you need several groupings; a form can belong to more than one category.
• Categories follow ASIC Company Alert. The groupings are ASIC's own, as described in the Company Alert section of the ASIC website, and ASIC may move forms between categories as its alert profiles change.
• Sub-forms. Form 484 is lodged with sub-forms (for example 484A change of address, 484E change to members register). ASIC's schedule lists the parent form; the sub-form and its description travel with each document as subForms[].
• Descriptions change over time. ASIC renames forms as legislation changes. Store the form code, not the description, and refresh descriptions from this endpoint.
• Historical form codes. Documents converted from pre-1991 state systems and older ASIC documents can carry form codes that no longer appear in the schedule. Where asicapi cannot find a description, formDescription on the document equals the form code.
• Sandbox. The form schedule is identical in the sandbox and in production.

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