Registrar’s update: Corporations facing deregistration for failing to report

The Registrar has given notice to 30 medium-size Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations of her intention to deregister them for failing to lodge reports for the past 2 years.

‘When corporations fail to lodge reports or any other updates to corporation information, it is often a sign they are no longer operating,’ said Ms Stroud, the Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations. 

Each corporation has been issued a notice of the Registrar’s intention to deregister them, and notice has been published in the Gazette. 

The corporations have been given a period of time to respond to the notice and lodge their overdue reports. If they don’t contact ORIC, it will be assumed they are no longer operating and they will be deregistered.

‘This activity assessed only large and medium corporations for deregistration or other regulatory action,’ said Ms Stroud. ‘A second stage will assess small corporations that have not lodged any reports or updates to corporation information.’

How to check reporting and deregistration status

Corporation public records

ORIC makes available for free via oric.gov.au, a view of the Register of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations.

You can search for a corporation by its name, Indigenous corporation number or location. From the search results you can access the corporation extract that contains a summary of all reporting activity and notices issued to the corporation. You can also see a copy of the deregistration notice in its documents. 

Consolidated list of corporations with overdue reports 

ORIC publishes a list of corporations that have not lodged reports for one or both of the last 2 reporting years. It is updated nightly and available on ORIC’s website.

Tricia Stroud
Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations