ASIC register type and licence codes

Besides the companies register, ASIC maintains a set of registers about people and firms: registered auditors, registered and official liquidators, securities and futures industry participants and their authorised representatives, and the people who have been banned or disqualified from those industries or from managing corporations. Each register has a two-letter code, and the entries on them carry their own small code tables for status, suspension reasons, ban types and pre-1991 legislation. This page collects all of them in one place so you can decode a register extract without guessing.

Where it appears in the API

• register path segment and register.code on results from GET /v1/registers, the free browse GET /v1/registers/{register}/entries, the purchase POST /v1/registers/{register}/entries/{number}/extracts and the read GET /v1/registers/{register}/entries/{number} (see purchasing). Uses the register types table.
• licences[].type on a person record uses the person licence and register roles table (see office holder role codes); licences[].licenceStatus uses the licence statuses table.
• licences[].type on GET /v1/companies/{id}/relationships, read from a purchased relational extract, uses the company licence types table.
• suspensions[].reason on a professional register extract uses the suspension reasons table; registration.preAsicLegislation uses the pre-ASIC legislation table; tradingNames[].type uses the register trading types table; addresses[].type uses the register address types table.
• bans[].type on a banned representative extract (BS, BF) uses the licence ban types table.
• authorities[].type on an authorised representative extract (SP, FP) uses the authorities held table.
• status on register entries uses the register status table.

Register types

Register families and identifiers

asicapi groups the registers into three families. The family determines what the number in the URL means and which extract shape you receive.

The API pages for each family are professional registers and banned and disqualified persons.

Register status

Applies to the registrant or representative as a whole. A suspended registrant is still on the register but may not practise.

Licence statuses

Used for licenceStatus on a person's licence records. It tracks the lifecycle of an application rather than the registration itself.

Suspension reasons

Each entry in suspensions[] on a professional register extract carries a reason, a from and to date and a permanent flag. The reasons mirror the grounds in the securities and futures legislation of the 1990s and remain on historical records.

Licence ban types

The bans[].type on a BS or BF extract says which activity the person is banned from. BSC and BFC are combined bans covering both dealing and advising.

Authorities held

An authorised representative acts under an authority from a licensee. The authorities[] array on an SP or FP extract lists each authority with the licence number and licensee, and the type says which kind of licensee granted it.

Pre-ASIC legislation

Registrations that pre-date ASIC (1991) record the Act or Code under which the original registration was made, together with the pre-ASIC number and start date, in registration.preAsicLegislation, registration.preAsicNumber and registration.preAsicStartDate.

Trading types

Registered and official liquidators trade through a firm or under a practice name. A registered liquidator has either firm details or a practice name, never both.

Licence types on company relationships

GET /v1/companies/{id}/relationships returns the licences a company holds in licences[]. This table is the company-side equivalent of the person licence and register roles table for people and includes the modern Australian financial services licence codes FL and FR.

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