{"id":"F2022L00349","name":"Business Names Registration (Fees) Regulations 2022","slug":"business-names-registration-fees-regulations-2022","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":441282,"registerId":"F2022L00349-fast-fetch-1775956628081","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Business Names Registration (Fees) Regulations 2022","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 22.10.0\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n\n\n \n\nBusiness Names Registration (Fees) Regulations 2022\n\nI, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.\n\nDated 17 March 2022\n\nDavid Hurley\n\nGovernor‑General\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command\n\nJane Hume\n\nMinister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n1 Name\n\n2 Commencement\n\n3 Authority\n\n4 Schedules\n\n5 Definitions\n\nPart 2—Fees for chargeable matters\n\n6 Prescribed fees\n\nPart 3—Transitional and application provisions\n\n7 Saving provision—amounts payable before commencement\n\nSchedule 1—Repeals\n\nBusiness Names Registration (Fees) Regulations 2011\n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n \n\n1 Name\n\n This instrument is the Business Names Registration (Fees) Regulations 2022.\n\n2 Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument 1 April 2022. 1 April 2022\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.\n\n3 Authority\n\n This instrument is made under the Business Names Registration (Fees) Act 2011.\n\n4 Schedules\n\n Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.\n\n5 Definitions\n\nNote: The expression chargeable matter is defined in the Act. In addition, a number of expressions used in this instrument have the same meaning as in the Business Names Registration Act 2011 (see subsection 3(2) of the Business Names Registration (Fees) Act 2011), including the following:\n\n(a) business name;\n\n(b) entity;\n\n(c) government body.\n\n In this instrument:\n\nAct means the Business Names Registration (Fees) Act 2011.\n\nRegister means the Business Names Register established and maintained under section 22 of the Business Names Registration Act 2011.\n\nPart 2—Fees for chargeable matters\n\n \n\n6 Prescribed fees\n\nFees for chargeable matters\n\n (1) For the purposes of section 4 of the Act, the fee imposed for a chargeable matter referred to in column 1 of an item of the following table is the amount set out in column 2 of that item.\n\n \n\n|
Item | Column 1
Chargeable matter | Column 2
Fee |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Registration of a business name to an entity for 1 year | $37 |\n| 2 | Renewal of the registration of a business name to an entity for 1 year | $37 |\n| 3 | Registration of a business name to an entity for 3 years | $88 |\n| 4 | Renewal of the registration of a business name to an entity for 3 years | $88 |\n| 5 | An application by an entity, other than a government body or journalist, for an extract of the Register containing current information relating to one business name | $9 |\n| 6 | An application by an entity, other than a government body or journalist, for an extract of the Register containing current information relating to one entity | $19 |\n| 7 | An application by an entity, other than a government body or journalist, for an extract of the Register containing current and historical information relating to one business name | $17 |\n| 8 | An application by an entity, other than a government body or journalist, for an extract of the Register containing current and historical information relating to one entity | $40 |\n| 9 | An application by a government body or journalist for an extract of the Register relating to the business names currently or previously registered to an entity | no fee |\n| 10 | If the inspection of the Register or the issue or display of a document occurs at a Business Centre of ASIC, in addition to the fee payable under item 5, 6, 7 or 8 | $3 |\n\n\nIndexation of fees\n\n (2) At the start of each financial year (an indexation year) after the financial year beginning 1 July 2021, the dollar amounts mentioned in subsection (1) are replaced by the amount worked out using the following formula for each of those amounts:\n\n \n\n (3) The indexation factor for an indexation year is the number worked out using the following formula:\n\n \n\nwhere:\n\nbase quarter means the last March quarter before the reference quarter.\n\nindex number, for a quarter, means the All Groups Consumer Price Index number (being the weighted average of the 8 capital cities) published by the Australian Statistician for that quarter.\n\nreference quarter means the March quarter in the year before the indexation year.\n\n (4) An indexation factor is to be calculated to 3 decimal places (rounding up if the fourth decimal place is 5 or more).\n\n (5) An indexation factor that is less than 1 is to be increased to 1.\n\n (6) Amounts worked out under subsection (2) are to be rounded to the nearest whole dollar (rounding 50 cents downwards).\n\n (7) Calculations under subsection (3):\n\n (a) are to be made using only the index numbers published in terms of the most recently published index reference period; and\n\n (b) are to be made disregarding index numbers that are published in substitution for previously published index numbers (except where the substituted numbers are published to take account of changes in the index reference period).\n\nPart 3—Transitional and application provisions\n\n \n\n7 Saving provision—amounts payable before commencement\n\n Despite the repeal of the Business Names Registration (Fees) Regulations 2011 by this instrument, those regulations continue to apply in relation to an amount that became due for payment before the commencement of this instrument, as if the repeal had not happened.\n\nSchedule 1—Repeals\n\n \n\nBusiness Names Registration (Fees) Regulations 2011\n\n1 The whole of the instrument\n\nRepeal the instrument.\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation maintains the same narrow scope as its predecessor—setting fees for business name registration and Register extracts. The 2022 version is a straightforward remake with updated fee amounts and indexation mechanics, not an expansion of purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Short length (7 sections plus Schedule)","Simple fee table with 10 items","Mathematical indexation formula with defined variables (base quarter, reference quarter, index number)","One transitional provision preserving old fee obligations for pre-commencement debts","Minimal cross-referencing (primarily to parent Act for definitions)","No nested exceptions or conditional logic beyond the indexation safeguards (floor of 1 for indexation factor, rounding rules)"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument sets the fees for registering or renewing Australian business names ($37 for 1 year, $88 for 3 years) and for obtaining extracts from the Business Names Register (typically $9–$40). Government bodies and journalists get free extracts; a $3 surcharge applies for in-person service at ASIC centres.\n\nIt also ties annual fee increases to the CPI (never decreasing), affecting anyone who registers/renews a business name or requests register information and ASIC as the collector."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"This instrument repeals the Business Names Registration (Fees) Regulations 2011 and replaces the fee schedule and charging rules (Schedule 1; reg 6(1)). It also adds a prescribed CPI-based indexation mechanism and specific rounding/precision rules for annual adjustments (reg 6(2)–(6)). It does not expand the statutory category of 'chargeable matter' (that remains defined in the Act) but changes the payable amounts, who pays particular fees or is exempt, and the method for future fee increases; transitional protection for amounts due before commencement is retained (reg 7)."},"complexity_factors":["Numeric fee schedule with multiple itemised fee types (registration, renewal, extracts, in-person charge) (reg 6(1))","Annual CPI indexation formula using specific reference and base quarter definitions (reg 6(2)–(3))","Precision and rounding rules: indexation factor to 3 decimals, minimum factor of 1, amounts rounded to nearest dollar (reg 6(4)–(6))","Exemptions for government bodies and journalists for certain extracts (reg 6(1) items 5–9)","Transitional saving clause preserving pre-commencement liabilities despite repeal (reg 7)","Repeal of prior instrument and replacement of fee regime (Schedule 1)"],"plain_english_summary":"This regulation sets the fees charged for registering and renewing business names, for getting extracts from the Business Names Register, and for certain in‑person services. It repeals the 2011 fees instrument, fixes specific dollar amounts for those services and establishes an annual CPI-based indexation method for future fee adjustments; affected parties are entities, government bodies and journalists who use the Register and must pay (or are exempt from) the listed fees."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/business-names-registration-fees-regulations-2022","history":"/api/acts/business-names-registration-fees-regulations-2022/history","analysis":"/api/acts/business-names-registration-fees-regulations-2022/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/business-names-registration-fees-regulations-2022/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/business-names-registration-fees-regulations-2022/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/business-names-registration-fees-regulations-2022/documents"}}