Switching company secretarial providers is often delayed because directors worry about gaps in the handover, missing registers, outdated filings, or an unresponsive previous provider. We manage this transition directly, including chasing down records from a previous secretary if needed, so the switch doesn’t create a compliance gap of its own.
What’s included
- Formal appointment as your new company secretary, filed with ACRA
- Retrieval of existing statutory registers and records from your previous secretary or provider
- Review of your filing history to identify any overdue or incomplete items before they become a problem
- Reconstruction of missing or incomplete records where a handover is incomplete
- A current filing calendar set up from the point of transfer onward
Common situations we handle
- Your previous secretary or firm has become unresponsive or shut down
- You’re consolidating multiple providers (separate bookkeeper, secretary, and tax agent) into one team
- Your existing records have gaps and you’re not sure what’s actually been filed
- You simply want a more proactive provider going forward
Our process
- We contact your existing secretary or provider to request a handover of statutory records
- We review what’s received against ACRA’s filing history for your company, to spot any gaps
- We file the change of company secretary with ACRA
- We reconstruct or update any incomplete registers before taking over ongoing filings
- We confirm your company is current before moving into regular company secretarial support
Who this is for
Directors switching company secretarial providers for any reason whether the move is straightforward or there’s a backlog to sort out first.
How this fits with our other services
Once the transfer is complete, this moves into ongoing Company Secretarial support. If your bookkeeping also needs to catch up as part of the same switch, see Annual Compilation of Accounts.