A Practical Guide to the Companies Act
A Practical Guide to the Companies Act is a step-by-step guide intended to provide South African business owners and managers, as well as their legal advisors, with the practical guidance and templates to prope
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A Practical Guide to the Companies Act is a step-by-step guide intended to provide South African business owners and managers, as well as their legal advisors, with the practical guidance and templates to properly complete a Memorandum of Incorporation for their business.
Table of contents
Part I: Decision-making diagrams
Private Company: Founding Docs
Private Company: Public Interest Score
Private Company: Shares and Debt Instruments
Private Company: Governance A–C
Private Company: Governance D–F
Close Corporation
Public Company
Part II: A step-by-step guide to completing Form CoR 15.1B – Standard Memorandum of Incorporation for Profit Companies – for a Private Company
Part III: Prescribed forms and other required documents
New private company
Form CoR 9.1 – Application to reserve a name
Form CoR 14.1 – Notice of Incorporation
Form CoR 15.1B – Memorandum of Incorporation
Form CoR 21.1 – Notice of change of registered office
Form CoR 39 – Notice of change of directors
Form CoR 44 – Notice of change of auditor or company secretary
Example of written consent to act as director
Pre-existing public company converting to a private company
Form CoR 15.2 – Notice of amendment of Memorandum of Incorporation
Form CoR 36.2 – General company notice to security holders
Form CoR 15.1B – Cover page to Memorandum of Incorporation (pre-existing private company)
Form CoR 15.1B – Cover page to Memorandum of Incorporation (pre-existing public company converting to a private company)
Close corporation converting to a private company
Form CoR 18.1 – Application to convert a Close Corporation
Form CoR 14.1 – Notice of Incorporation
Form CoR 21.1 – Notice of change of registered office
Form CoR 39 – Notice of change of directors
Form CoR 44 – Notice of change of auditor or company secretary
Extracts from the Companies Act No. 71 of 2008
Extracts from the Companies Regulations, 2011