List ASIC registers

List every ASIC register the asicapi REST API can browse: registered auditors, liquidators, legacy licensees, authorised representatives and banned persons.

Beyond the companies register, ASIC maintains a set of occupational and enforcement registers: registered company auditors, registered and official liquidators, the pre-2002 securities dealer, investment adviser and futures licences, authorised representatives of licensees, and the registers of banned or disqualified persons. This endpoint returns the catalogue of those registers so you can discover which register codes are accepted by the browse, purchase and read endpoints, how each register identifies its entries (registration number, licence number, representative number or ASIC identifier), and whether a register accepts "history": true when you purchase an extract. Browsing a register is free; the extract is bought once with a POST and read free for 12 months, as explained in the purchasing guide.

GEThttps://api.asicapi.dev/v1/registers

Query parameters

This endpoint takes no query parameters. It is free and never billed.

Example request

Request

curl https://api.asicapi.dev/v1/registers \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ASICAPI_KEY"

Example response

Response

{
  "object": "list",
  "data": [
    {
      "object": "register",
      "code": "RA",
      "label": "Registered Auditor",
      "family": "professional",
      "identifierType": "registrationNumber",
      "browseBy": ["name", "number"],
      "supportsHistory": false
    },
    {
      "object": "register",
      "code": "RQ",
      "label": "Registered liquidators",
      "family": "professional",
      "identifierType": "registrationNumber",
      "browseBy": ["name", "number"],
      "supportsHistory": false
    },
    {
      "object": "register",
      "code": "OQ",
      "label": "Official liquidators",
      "family": "professional",
      "identifierType": "registrationNumber",
      "browseBy": ["name", "number"],
      "supportsHistory": false
    },
    {
      "object": "register",
      "code": "IA",
      "label": "Investment adviser",
      "family": "professional",
      "identifierType": "licenceNumber",
      "browseBy": ["name", "number"],
      "supportsHistory": false
    },
    {
      "object": "register",
      "code": "SD",
      "label": "Securities dealer",
      "family": "professional",
      "identifierType": "licenceNumber",
      "browseBy": ["name", "number"],
      "supportsHistory": false
    },
    {
      "object": "register",
      "code": "FB",
      "label": "Futures broker",
      "family": "professional",
      "identifierType": "licenceNumber",
      "browseBy": ["name", "number"],
      "supportsHistory": false
    },
    {
      "object": "register",
      "code": "FD",
      "label": "Futures dealer",
      "family": "professional",
      "identifierType": "licenceNumber",
      "browseBy": ["name", "number"],
      "supportsHistory": false
    },
    {
      "object": "register",
      "code": "SP",
      "label": "Securities industry representatives",
      "family": "authorised-representatives",
      "identifierType": "representativeNumber",
      "browseBy": ["name", "number"],
      "supportsHistory": true
    },
    {
      "object": "register",
      "code": "FP",
      "label": "Futures industry representatives",
      "family": "authorised-representatives",
      "identifierType": "representativeNumber",
      "browseBy": ["name", "number"],
      "supportsHistory": true
    },
    {
      "object": "register",
      "code": "DD",
      "label": "Disqualified directors",
      "family": "banned-disqualified",
      "identifierType": "asicIdentifier",
      "browseBy": ["name"],
      "supportsHistory": false
    },
    {
      "object": "register",
      "code": "BS",
      "label": "Banned securities representatives",
      "family": "banned-disqualified",
      "identifierType": "asicIdentifier",
      "browseBy": ["name"],
      "supportsHistory": false
    },
    {
      "object": "register",
      "code": "BF",
      "label": "Banned futures representatives",
      "family": "banned-disqualified",
      "identifierType": "asicIdentifier",
      "browseBy": ["name"],
      "supportsHistory": false
    }
  ],
  "hasMore": false,
  "nextCursor": null,
  "totalCount": 12,
  "meta": {
    "billable": false,
    "product": null,
    "requestId": "req_01J8ZK3V7Q0M2X"
  }
}

Response fields

Field	Type	Description
`object`	string	Always `list`.
`data[]`	array	One `register` object per browsable register.
`data[].object`	string	Always `register`.
`data[].code`	string	The ASIC register type code from the register types table. Use it as the `{register}` path segment on the browse, purchase and read endpoints.
`data[].label`	string	ASIC's description of the register.
`data[].family`	string	Which group of endpoints serves the register: `professional`, `authorised-representatives` or `banned-disqualified`.
`data[].identifierType`	string	How entries are identified: `registrationNumber` (RA, RQ, OQ), `licenceNumber` (IA, SD, FB, FD), `representativeNumber` (SP, FP) or `asicIdentifier` (DD, BS, BF). This is the `{number}` path segment on the purchase and read endpoints.
`data[].browseBy[]`	array of strings	Browse keys the register accepts: `name` (family name or organisation name prefix) and, where supported, `number`. The banned and disqualified registers can only be browsed by name.
`data[].supportsHistory`	boolean	`true` when the purchase body of `POST /v1/registers/{register}/entries/{number}/extracts` accepts `"history": true`. Only the authorised representatives registers (SP, FP) offer a historical extract; elsewhere `history` must be `false`.
`hasMore`	boolean	Always `false`; the catalogue fits in one page.
`nextCursor`	string or null	Always `null`.
`totalCount`	integer	Number of browsable registers.
`meta`	object	The catalogue is free: `billable` is `false` and `product` is `null`.

Register codes

The full ASIC register type table (register types) is reproduced below. Only the twelve registers marked browsable are accepted by the register endpoints.

Code	Register	Family	Identifier	Browsable
`RA`	Registered auditors	professional	Registration number	Yes
`RQ`	Registered liquidators	professional	Registration number	Yes
`OQ`	Official liquidators	professional	Registration number	Yes (legacy)
`IA`	Investment advisers	professional	Licence number	Yes (legacy)
`SD`	Securities dealers	professional	Licence number	Yes (legacy)
`FB`	Futures brokers	professional	Licence number	Yes (legacy)
`FD`	Futures dealers (advisers)	professional	Licence number	Yes (legacy)
`SP`	Securities industry representatives	authorised-representatives	Representative number	Yes
`FP`	Futures industry representatives	authorised-representatives	Representative number	Yes
`DD`	Disqualified directors	banned-disqualified	ASIC identifier	Yes
`BS`	Banned securities representatives	banned-disqualified	ASIC identifier	Yes
`BF`	Banned futures representatives	banned-disqualified	ASIC identifier	Yes
`FX`	Banned financial services representatives	none	ASIC identifier	No
`IF`	Foreign insurance brokers	none	Licence number	No
`IG`	General insurance brokers	none	Licence number	No
`IL`	Life insurance brokers	none	Licence number	No

Code	Meaning
`BF`	Banned futures representatives
`BS`	Banned securities representatives
`DD`	Disqualified directors
`FB`	Futures broker
`FD`	Futures dealer
`FP`	Futures industry representatives
`FX`	Banned Financial Services Representative
`IA`	Investment adviser
`IF`	Foreign insurance brokers
`IG`	General insurance brokers
`IL`	Life insurance brokers
`OQ`	Official liquidators
`RA`	Registered Auditor
`RQ`	Registered liquidators
`SD`	Securities dealer
`SP`	Securities industry representatives

16 codes. Source: the "Register type" table in ASIC's Datastream specification.

Errors

Code	HTTP status	When
`unauthorized`	401	The API key is missing or invalid. See authentication.
`rate_limited`	429	You exceeded 600 requests per minute or 20 concurrent requests.
`asic_unavailable`	503	The ASIC database is offline. Retry after the interval in `Retry-After`.

Notes from the ASIC register

Legacy licence registers. The investment adviser (IA), securities dealer (SD), futures broker (FB) and futures dealer (FD) registers hold licences issued before the Financial Services Reform Act 2001 replaced them with the single Australian financial services (AFS) licence. ASIC still serves them, and a purchased extract for IA or SD, and for FB or FD, includes the paired licence when the licensee held both, but no new entries are added. Current AFS licensees are not exposed through these registers; a person's AFS roles appear on a purchased person extract as licence records.
Official liquidators. From 1 March 2017 the role of official liquidator (OQ) ceased by operation of law. A person's registration as official liquidator remains current on the register until every court liquidation they were appointed to at 1 March 2017 has been finalised, so the register still returns entries but they will only ever decrease.
Insurance broker registers. ASIC lists foreign (IF), general (IG) and life (IL) insurance broker registers in its code table, but they are not browsable through the register services and the API returns register_invalid if you pass them. The banned financial services representatives register (FX) is likewise not browsable; banning orders made under the current regime surface on the person extract instead.
Identifiers differ by register. Auditors and liquidators have registration numbers; the legacy licence registers have licence numbers; authorised representatives have an ASIC representative number; banned and disqualified persons are keyed by the ASIC identifier that appears in browse results. Always take the number from a browse result rather than constructing it.
Three steps, one charge. Browsing any register is free. Purchasing an extract with POST /v1/registers/{register}/entries/{number}/extracts is the only step ASIC charges for, and reading it back with GET /v1/registers/{register}/entries/{number} is free for 12 months. See the purchasing guide.
Codes may grow. ASIC adds codes to its tables without publishing a new specification. When the API meets a code it does not recognise, label equals code.

List ASIC registers

Query parameters

Example request

Example response

Response fields

Register codes

Errors

Notes from the ASIC register

Registered auditors, liquidators and licensees

Authorised representatives

Banned and disqualified persons

Purchasing guide

Professional registers explained

Register type codes

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