CAC enforcement: your letterhead and invoices are now a compliance item

The Corporate Affairs Commission announced in July 2026 two enforcement initiatives affecting everyday corporate compliance. One targets dormant and non-filing companies through the striking-off exercise. The other concerns the particulars companies must display on their business letters, order forms, invoices and other official documents.

This is the kind of requirement that sits in the statute unread until it is enforced. Registered company name, registration number and registered office are not decoration on a letterhead; they are the statutory means by which the people you deal with can identify and find the company they are contracting with.

The fix is cheap and takes an afternoon: audit your letterhead, invoice template, website footer, quotation forms and email signature block against the particulars the Commission requires, and correct them together rather than one at a time.

We are running these audits for clients as part of their annual compliance review. If your company changed name, address or registered office in the last few years, assume at least one template was never updated.