Companies Act 71 of

2008 & Regulations

Edition: 17th
Publication date: 2022
Author/Editors: Juta's Statutes Editors
ISBN: 9781485140238
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Contents Include:

What's New

Key Addresses

Companies Act 71 of 2008

Regulations

Companies Regulations, 2011

Regulations for the Winding-Up and Judicial Management of Companies

Electronic Filing of Company and External Company Annual Returns

Designation of Facsimile Numbers for Public Contact with the Companies and Intellectual Property
Commission

Notice of Authorised Signature for Purposes of Applications Submitted to the Companies and
Intellectual Property Commission

Notice of Alternative Methods for Incorporating a Short Standard Private Company and Maintaining
Company and Close Corporation Information with the Companies and Intellectual Property
Commission

Notice in terms of Regulation 171 of the Companies Regulations, 2011: Fees and Charges to be Paid
to the Takeover Regulation Panel

Notice of Introduction of Online Payment Methods by the Companies and Intellectual Property
Commission

Deactivation of Manual Filing Channel for Short Standard Private (COR15.1A) and Short Standard
Non-Profit without Members (COR15.1C) Company Registrations

Notice of Introduction of New Online Filing Method for Changes of Authorised Shares as per Form
CoR15.2

Reporting of Annual Financial Statements (AFS) to be Lodged Using Extensible Business Reporting
Language (XBRL)

Financial Reporting Pronouncement 1: Substantively Enacted Tax Rates and Tax Laws under
International Financial Reporting Standards and International Financial Reporting Standards for
Small and Medium Enterprises

Financial Reporting Pronouncement 2: Accounting for Black Economic Empowerment (BEE)

Transactions under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

Financial Reporting Pronouncement 3: Accounting for Black Economic Empowerment (BEE)

Transaction under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for Small and Medium
Enterprises

Financial Reporting Pronouncement 5: Summary Financial Statements

Financial Reporting Pronouncement 4: The Limit on a Defined Benefit Asset, Minimum Funding
Requirements and their interaction under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the
South African Pension Fund Environment

Guidance Notes
 Guidance Note 1 of 2011: Registration of Companies

Guidance Note 2 of 2011: Registration of Companies

Guidance Note 3 of 2011: Changes to External Company Detail

Guidance Note 4 of 2011: No More Conversion from Company to a Close Corporation

Guidance Note 5 of 2011: Vetting and Registration of Prospectuses

Guidance Note 6 of 2011: Conversion of Pre-Existing Companies Limited by Guarantee in terms of the
Act (Schedule 5, Item 4(d)(i) and (ii))

Guidance Note 7 of 2011: Conversion of Close Corporations to Companies in terms of the Act

Guidance Note 1 of 2012: Change of Financial Year End

Guidance Note 4 of 2012: Rejections in relation to applications for close corporations amendments

Guidance Note 1 of 2013: Amendment of Corporate Constitutions (Memorandum and Articles of

Association) before expiry date of transitional arrangements under the Act

Guidance Note: Audit and accounting requirements of the Act

Guidance Note: Application of section 22 of the Act on close corporations

Practice Notes

Practice Note 4 of 2008: Creditors' Voluntary Winding-Up under section 351 of the Companies Act,
1973

Practice Note 1 of 2011: Companies and Close Corporations Postal and Physical Address
Requirements

Practice Note 3 of 2011: Companies and Close Corporations Procedure for Approval for Distribution of
Commission Forms

Practice Note 4 of 2011: Detail of Incorporators on Local Companies

Practice Note 5 of 2011: Detail of Directors to be Provided on CoR14.1 Annexure A and CoR39

Practice Note 6 of 2011: Detail Required for Registration of External Companies

Practice Note 9 of 2011: Use of Customer Codes on CoR14.1, CoR15.2, CK1 and CK2

Practice Note: Procedures in relation to Amendments to Auditors or Company Secretary

Practice Note: Procedures in relation to Amendments to Email Addresses Used for Changes in
Directorship

Practice Note 1 of 2012: Position of Pre-Existing Companies on the Adoption of a New (MoI) or the
Amendment of an Existing MoI

Practice Note 2 of 2012: Interpretation and Application of Section 23 of the Act and Regulation 43 of
the Regulations

Practice Note 3 of 2012: Notice on Documents Required in respect of Applications for Liquidation of
 Either Solvent or Insolvent Companies and Close Corporations

Practice Note 4 of 2012: Interpretation of Section 11(3)(b) Read with Section 15(2)(b) and (c) of
the Act, in relation to the Use of '(RF)' in the Name of a Company

Practice Note 6 of 2012: Requirements for Re-Instatement in terms of the Act

Practice Note 7 of 2012: Application for Deregistration of Companies and Close Corporations in terms
of the Act

Practice Note 1 of 2014: Name changes for companies initially registered with only a registration
number

Practice Note 2 of 2014: Requirements for appointing and resignation of auditors and/or company
secretaries

Practice Note 3 of 2014: Business Rescue Filing Procedure

Practice Note 3 of 2015: Conditions of the conditional license

Practice Note 1 of 2016: Annual returns—correct disclosure of turnover value

Practice Note 2 of 2016: Merger and amalgamation filing procedure (CoR89)

Practice Note 3 of 2016: Notice of shareholders meeting

Practice Notes 4 and 5 of 2016

Practice Note 8 of 2017: Requirements for Re-Instatement in terms of Regulation 4(2)(b)Â

Practice Note 9 of 2017: Service of Subpoenas and Other Court Documents on CIPC

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