Companies must, from 1 March this year, provide the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) with certified evidence of their registered address. This requirement is contained in a notice published in the Government Gazette on 9 February.
Section 23(3) of the Companies Act states that each company or external company must continuously maintain at least one office in the Republic of South Africa and register the address of its office, or its principal office if it has more than one office.
As part of the CIPC’s drive to ensure the correctness and reliability of information submitted to it, the CIPC will require certified evidence of the registered address or its principal office to be submitted with the following applications as from 1 March:
- Registration of External Company (CoR20.1 and supporting documentation),
- Long Standard Form Profit Companies (Form CoR15.1B and supporting documentation),
- Long Standard Form Non-Profit Companies without members (Form CoR15.1D and supporting documentation),
- Long Standard Form Non-Profit Companies with members (Form CoR15.1E and supporting documentation),
- Application to Convert a Close Corporation (Form CoR16.1 and supporting documents), and
- Application to Transfer Registration of Foreign Company (Form CoR17.1 and supporting documents).
