Compliance

Beneficial Ownership & Reinstatement

File your company's beneficial ownership register with CIPC, or apply to reinstate a deregistered company.

R795

once-off

Beneficial ownership register filing with CIPC
Company reinstatement application for deregistered entities
Compliance and status review
Confirmation of filed application

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Two jobs on one page

This page covers two filings that share a form because they share a workflow, not because they are the same thing. The first question on the form picks between them.

Beneficial ownership is a live company keeping a required CIPC register current, naming the natural people who ultimately own or control it. Order this when the company exists and is in good standing.

Reinstatement is an application to restore a company that has been deregistered. Order this when the company has come off the register and you need it back.

If you are not sure which state your company is in, say so in the additional-details box and we will check the CIPC record before doing anything else.

Beneficial ownership: who gets named

The register looks past the share register to the human beings behind it. Where a company is owned by another company, or by a trust, naming the corporate shareholder is not an answer — the filing wants the natural people at the end of the chain.

So a straightforward two-founder Pty is quick, while a structure with a holding company or a family trust in it needs the ownership chain written out before we can file. Put that structure in the additional-details box.

It is also a filing that goes stale. Ownership changes, so every shareholder change is a prompt to refile.

Reinstatement: what to expect

Restoring a deregistered company is an application with an outcome, not a payment that guarantees one. CIPC assesses it. What we need from you is the company name and registration number, plus whatever you know about why the company was deregistered — that context shapes which supporting documents the application needs.

Reinstatement on its own also does not clear whatever put the company there. Outstanding annual returns stay outstanding until they are filed, and a restored company with a still-dirty record does not stay restored comfortably for long.

Filing it once is not filing it

Both halves of this page share a trap: people treat the submission as a task completed rather than a record maintained. A beneficial ownership register filed at incorporation and never touched again describes a company that may no longer exist in that shape. A reinstated company with no plan for the returns that follow is back where it started inside a year or two.

What you get

Confirmation of the filed application, with status updates in your order workspace. Both filings depend on CIPC processing, and neither has a turnaround we can promise on the Commission's behalf.

Annual returns — the ongoing filing that keeps a company on the register
Shareholder changes — what most often makes a beneficial ownership filing stale
Packages — the Premium registration includes beneficial ownership at incorporation