Company Registration

Company Amendments

Registered changes to name, objectives, capital, address or articles — with the resolutions passed, minuted and filed so the record matches reality.

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Companies renaming or rebranding
Businesses whose registered objectives no longer cover what they actually do
Companies increasing or reducing registered capital
Companies relocating the registered office

Company name changes, and the memorandum and seal updates they trigger

Amendments to the company objectives

Capital increases, and reductions with the creditor-notice steps a reduction requires

Registered-office relocation, including moves to another province

Amendments to the articles of association

Meeting notices, resolutions and minutes prepared to registry standard

Confirm the change and the resolution it requires
Issue the meeting notice and hold the shareholders’ or board meeting
Draft the minutes and the amended registered documents
For a capital reduction — run the creditor notice and waiting period
File the amendment with the Department of Business Development
Hand over the updated affidavit and list the follow-on updates the change triggers

Documents to prepare

Current company affidavit, memorandum and articles
Details of the intended change and the reason for it
Current shareholder list and share register
For a capital change — the latest financial statements
Existing licences the change will affect

Changes to the name, objectives, memorandum, articles and capital require a special resolution passed at a properly-notified shareholders’ meeting; some routine matters sit at board level. We confirm the required resolution before the notice goes out, because a defective notice means filing again.

Once the resolution is validly passed, registry filing is usually completed within AMENDMENT_TIMEFRAME. The statutory meeting-notice period runs before that, so the calendar is set by the notice, not the filing.

Considerably. A capital reduction has a statutory creditor-objection procedure — published notice and written notice to known creditors, with a waiting period before the reduction can be registered. An increase has no equivalent step.

Yes. A cross-province move amends the memorandum, so it takes the special-resolution route, and it triggers follow-on updates with the tax and licensing authorities in both provinces.

We list every record the change touches when we scope the matter. Which of those follow-on updates the firm carries out, and which the company handles itself: AMENDMENT_SCOPE_NOTE

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