What you should do
-
Register online as a customer with CIPC so that
you can transact with CIPC or register through an existing customer e.g.
ask your accountant to register for you.
- Reserve a company name by completing Application to Reserve a Name, Form CoR 9.1.
- Pay a filing fee of R75 if you submit manually or R50 if you file electronically.
- A name reservation is valid for six months.
Note:
You can register a company without a name reservation. The registration
number becomes the name of the company at incorporation, until such
time as an appropriate name has been reserved/approved.
- Complete the following forms and hand deliver them to CIPC or submit them electronically:
- Notice of Incorporation (CoR 14.1)
- Memorandum of Incorporation (MOI) (CoR15.1B) or a Unique MOI.
- Submit the following supporting documents with your application:
- certified
passport copies (if foreign national) or certified Identify Document
(ID) copies (if South African) of all indicated initial directors and
incorporators
- a certified ID copy of the applicant if the application is not made by one of the indicated initial directors or incorporators
- if
an incorporator is a juristic person, then a power of attorney for the
representative authorised by such juristic person to incorporate the
company and sign all related documents
- if another person
incorporates the company and signs all related documents to the
incorporation on behalf of any or all of the incorporators and initial
directors, a power of attorney and a certified ID copy of such a person
is required
- if a name was reserved before the filing of incorporation documents, then a valid name reservation document.
- Submit the following with CoR15.1B:
- CoR14.1 Annexure A (if
the initial directors of a company has already been appointed before
incorporation and such are not the same as the incorporators; or
- one
or more of the incorporators of a company is a juristic persons and
the count of natural incorporators (first directors) is below the
minimum 1 director as required by the Act, or the minimum number of
directors specified on the CoR15.1A
- CoR14.1 Annexure B if you did not reserve a name before filing of a CoR 15.1A, but the incorporators elect to apply for a name reservation with incorporation documents
- CoR14.1 Annexure C if ring fencing conditions are applicable
- CoR14.1 Annexure D if you have appointed an auditor.
If the
CoR14.1 Annexure D is not filed at incorporation, a
CoR 44 must be filed within 40 business days after incorporation to notify the CIPC of the details of such officials.