Official company records for Cocos (Keeling) Islands, on demand

The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are an Australian external territory, grouped with Christmas Island as the Indian Ocean Territories, and Australian corporate law applies there of its own force. Section 2B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 defines Australia, when used in a geographical sense, to include the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and the Corporations Act 2001 names the territory in its definition of Territory, within the geographical area in which the Act applies. A company seated there is registered with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and receives an ACN, the unique nine digit identification number issued to every company in Australia.

ASIC's company and organisation register is searched through ASIC Connect, and paid extracts return what is recorded in ASIC's database under section 1274A of the Corporations Act 2001. A current extract carries current information only; a current and historical extract adds prior details. Both cover organisation details, addresses, officeholders, share structure, share information and members, and for each class of shares issued by a proprietary company ASIC records the top twenty members of the class based on shareholdings, together with any other member holding the same number of shares as the twentieth ranked member.

At the ownership level, what ASIC publishes is the registered members, the shareholders companies report; the Company Records report resolves beneficial ownership by following the registered shareholders up the ownership chain from official filings. The Company Records report for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands is a registry extract sourced from the official register.