ASIC professional registers

Beyond companies and their officers, ASIC maintains registers of the professionals it licenses or registers to work in the financial system: registered company auditors, registered liquidators, the former official liquidators, holders of the securities and futures licences that preceded the Australian financial services licence, and the authorised representatives who act under a licensee's authority. A register extract tells you whether a person or firm is currently registered, since when, where they practise, whether they are suspended, what conditions apply and, for liquidators, what disciplinary action has been taken. Anyone appointing an auditor, checking the practitioner named on a Form 505, or verifying an adviser's authority relies on these registers.

The registers

The full register type table (the register types table) also lists the banned and disqualified registers, covered on their own page, and three insurance broker registers that are no longer maintained:

GET /v1/registers returns this table with the family and identifierType of each register so your client can drive its own user interface from it.

Official liquidators ceased on 1 March 2017

Until 2017 a court could only appoint a liquidator who held the additional status of official liquidator. The Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 abolished the category, and from 1 March 2017 the role of official liquidator ceased by operation of law. A person's registration on the OQ register nevertheless remains current until every court liquidation to which they were appointed at 1 March 2017 has been finalised, so the register is still populated and still searchable. New court appointments go to registered liquidators on RQ.

Legacy licence registers and their pairing

The IA, SD, FB and FD registers date from the Corporations Law licensing regime that the Financial Services Reform Act 2001 replaced with the single Australian financial services licence. They remain available for historical verification. ASIC treats them as two pairs: a request for a securities dealer (SD) also returns the investment adviser (IA) registration if the licensee held both, and a request for a futures broker (FB) also returns the futures adviser (FD) registration. The API returns both groups in the same extract when they exist. Current AFS licensees are not on these registers; their licences appear as licences[] with type FL on a person extract or a company's relationships.

Authorised representatives

The SP and FP registers list people who act under someone else's licence. A representative extract carries the person's name, birth details and former names, and an authorities[] array with one entry per licensee: the register and licence number of the licensee, the licensee's name and ACN, the appointment and cessation dates, whether the authority is current, and two flags. notVerified means ASIC has not confirmed the authority with the licensee, and suspended means the representative is currently suspended by ASIC. Representatives who ceased before the Financial Services Reform Act only appear when the extract was purchased with "history": true. The knownAs[] array holds the names under which the representative was known to the dealer. See authorised representatives.

What a professional register extract contains

When disclaimer is true ASIC requires this text to be shown with the extract:

There are documents recorded as received by the Commission that may affect the contents of the Commission's registers in relation to the above person or organisation that are unprocessed as at the stated date of this extract.

Office roles are ordered DR, EO, SR, AA, FE, RN, TN, CA, current before ceased, ceased in reverse chronological order.

Browsing a register

GET /v1/registers/{register}/entries accepts either a name or a number. The name is a family name prefix (or organisation name prefix) of at least two characters; name=SM returns every entry whose name starts with SM, so a longer prefix gives a shorter list. For SP and FP both name and givenName are required. Each result is a registerEntry summary with the number, party, start date, whether the matched name is a former name, whether the registrant is suspended, and an address. Browsing is free.

curl "https://api.asicapi.dev/v1/registers/RQ/entries?name=PATEL" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ASICAPI_KEY"

Purchasing and reading a register extract

The full entry is a purchased register extract. Buy it with POST /v1/registers/{register}/entries/{number}/extracts (product register_extract); the response is the complete extract with HTTP 201 and an ext_ id, and it is retained for 12 months. "history": true in the body only has an effect on the SP and FP registers.

curl -X POST https://api.asicapi.dev/v1/registers/RQ/entries/221144/extracts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ASICAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "history": false }'

{
  "object": "extract",
  "id": "ext_01J9H5A1C7N3K9",
  "kind": "register",
  "type": "current",
  "subject": { "register": { "code": "RQ", "label": "Registered liquidators" }, "number": "221144" },
  "purchasedAt": "2026-09-04T04:02:11Z",
  "asOf": "2026-09-04T04:02:09Z",
  "expiresAt": "2027-09-04T04:02:11Z",
  "disclaimer": "This extract contains information derived from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) database under section 1274A of the Corporations Act 2001. Please advise ASIC of any error which you may identify.",
  "registration": {
    "party": {
      "type": "person",
      "person": { "familyName": "PATEL", "givenNames": ["ANITA"], "formatted": "ANITA PATEL" },
      "birth": null,
      "organisation": null
    },
    "number": "221144",
    "disclaimer": false,
    "startDate": "2009-04-01",
    "preAsicStartDate": null,
    "preAsicLegislation": null,
    "preAsicNumber": null,
    "jurisdiction": { "code": "ASIC", "label": "Australian Securities and Investments Commission" }
  },
  "meta": { "billable": true, "product": "register_extract", "requestId": "req_01J9H5A2B4P7R1" }
}

The purchase response also carries the addresses, tradingNames, officeRoles, suspensions, conditions and disciplinaryDocuments keys exactly as they appear in the read response below. From then on GET /v1/registers/{register}/entries/{number} reads the extract you hold, free of ASIC fees, with an extract reference on the response. Calling it before you hold an extract for that entry returns extract_required (HTTP 402) with the purchase request to make.

curl https://api.asicapi.dev/v1/registers/RQ/entries/221144 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ASICAPI_KEY"

{
  "object": "registerEntry",
  "register": { "code": "RQ", "label": "Registered liquidators" },
  "number": "221144",
  "registration": {
    "party": {
      "type": "person",
      "person": { "familyName": "PATEL", "givenNames": ["ANITA"], "formatted": "ANITA PATEL" },
      "birth": null,
      "organisation": null
    },
    "number": "221144",
    "disclaimer": false,
    "startDate": "2009-04-01",
    "preAsicStartDate": null,
    "preAsicLegislation": null,
    "preAsicNumber": null,
    "jurisdiction": { "code": "ASIC", "label": "Australian Securities and Investments Commission" }
  },
  "addresses": [
    {
      "type": { "code": "PS", "label": "Postal address" },
      "status": { "code": "C", "label": "Current" },
      "from": "2018-02-01",
      "to": null,
      "address": { "careOf": null, "line1": "GPO BOX 1234", "street": null, "locality": "MELBOURNE", "state": "VIC", "postcode": "3001", "country": "AUSTRALIA" }
    },
    {
      "type": { "code": "PA", "label": "Principal Place of Practice" },
      "status": { "code": "C", "label": "Current" },
      "from": "2018-02-01",
      "to": null,
      "address": { "careOf": null, "line1": "LEVEL 12", "street": "100 COLLINS STREET", "locality": "MELBOURNE", "state": "VIC", "postcode": "3000", "country": "AUSTRALIA" }
    }
  ],
  "tradingNames": [
    {
      "type": { "code": "FI", "label": "Firm" },
      "status": { "code": "C", "label": "Current" },
      "party": { "type": "organisation", "person": null, "birth": null, "organisation": { "number": null, "numberType": null, "name": "INSOLVENCY PARTNERS", "abn": null } }
    }
  ],
  "officeRoles": [
    {
      "role": { "code": "DR", "label": "Director" },
      "status": { "code": "C", "label": "Current" },
      "appointedAt": "2018-02-01",
      "ceasedAt": null,
      "organisation": { "number": "004085616", "numberType": { "code": "ACN", "label": "Australian Company Number" }, "name": "INSOLVENCY PARTNERS PTY LTD" },
      "address": { "careOf": null, "line1": "LEVEL 12", "street": "100 COLLINS STREET", "locality": "MELBOURNE", "state": "VIC", "postcode": "3000", "country": "AUSTRALIA" }
    }
  ],
  "suspensions": [],
  "conditions": ["The registrant must not accept appointments as a liquidator in a members' voluntary winding up of a company that is a large proprietary company."],
  "disciplinaryDocuments": [],
  "extract": { "id": "ext_01J9H5A1C7N3K9", "type": "current", "purchasedAt": "2026-09-04T04:02:11Z", "asOf": "2026-09-04T04:02:09Z" },
  "meta": { "billable": false, "product": null, "requestId": "req_01J9H5B6D2Q4S8" }
}