Following on from my piece regarding the importance of correctly identifying your Grantor on the PPSR - see here - I undertook to post some links and hints to make this task a little easier.
ASIC should probably be your first port of call.
This link helps identify whether
organisations have ACNs.
Choose “Organisation & Business Names”
from the drop down box and enter the name of the business you are looking
for. You’ll probably get a list of matches from which you can choose the
one that matches your customer precisely.
Any Australian businesses with PTY or PTY
LTD at the end of their name must be registered here.
Most businesses with LTD at the end of
their name are likely to be here although some state registered businesses may
not be.
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Where all you have is a trading name, this
link is useful for identifying who owns that trading name.
Choose “Business names index” from the drop
down box and enter the trading name for the business you are looking for.
If we enter “Haymans” for example, we will find on the second page of search
results the following match:
Clicking on that entry will give you the
following:
Showing that, in
this example, the legal entity behind the trading name is Metal Manufactures
Limited.
Unfortunately, business names are registered against ABNs and do
not show ACNs but, in this instance, clicking on the ‘Metal Manufactures Limited’
name will take you to a screen identifying the organisation’s ACN (as well as
other trading names registered to them):
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This link will
take you to the Government’s ABN Lookup service.
While it will
certainly confirm to whom an ABN is registered it won’t identify who is acting
as the legal entity should the ABN belong to a Trust. It will often show
trading names used by the ABN holder (not always reliably however) which can
then be used to perform a separate look-up as per the previous link provided
above.
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