What it is used for, the 28-day deadline for share issues and transfers, how it is lodged, and what ASIC says about late lodgement.
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Form 484 is the ASIC form for changing a company’s details. ASIC describes it as the form to use for changes such as address, officeholders and share structures. For a founder it usually comes up in one situation: the company has issued or transferred shares and has to tell ASIC.
This page is current on the ASIC pages listed at the bottom, read on 22 October 2026. ASIC updates its pages, so confirm the current position on asic.gov.au before you lodge.
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ASIC’s Form 484 page gives the deadline as within 28 days after the date of the change. The changes a founder meets most often are below.
ASIC says the company must tell it about every share issue within 28 days after the issue. ASIC cites section 254X of the Corporations Act for new share issues.
The company tells ASIC within 28 days. ASIC’s steps use Form 484 and the “Change to members register” option, removing the shares from the transferor and adding them to the transferee.
ASIC says the company must tell it within 28 days of a change to a shareholder’s name or address.
ASIC gives 28 days for a change of company address and for adding or removing an officeholder, and says a late fee applies for an address change not notified in time.
ASIC’s fee table lists cancellation of shares and change to share structure as Form 484 lodgements, as well as issue of shares.
For a share issue, ASIC asks for:
A proprietary company must also give the members who received the shares and each member’s shareholding. ASIC’s June 2025 how-to guide shows the online form also asks whether the shares were issued for other than cash, and says that if you are issuing or cancelling shares you select “Change to share structure” and also “Change to members register”.
ASIC says you complete and lodge the form online in the relevant portal, which for a company is the company officeholder portal, and that if you cannot lodge online you should contact ASIC. ASIC’s pages describe signing in with the company’s ACN or ABN and a password, and having the company’s corporate key ready. ASIC’s page on changing a company address says the corporate key is on the top right of the latest annual statement.
ASIC’s fee table lists an issue of shares as a Form 484 lodgement with no fee, and says a late fee applies if ASIC is not notified within 28 days after the issue. ASIC’s April 2026 InFocus notes that missing more than one deadline can mean more than one late fee.
We have not quoted late fee amounts. We could not confirm the current figures from ASIC’s pages when we checked. The current amounts are on ASIC’s fees page, linked below.
ASIC counts 28 days from the date of the change, not from the date the paperwork was finished.
Updating the share register does not notify ASIC. They are two records, and a gap between them tends to surface in due diligence.
A raise that issues shares to several investors and changes officeholders can have several deadlines. ASIC’s April 2026 InFocus says missing more than one can mean more than one late fee.
CatenaHQ’s cap table and share register module keeps each allotment with its date, class, price and paid status, which is the information the form asks for. The lodgement itself is made with ASIC in its portal. CatenaHQ is software, and nothing here is legal advice.
Every statement above comes from the ASIC pages below, read on 22 October 2026. The dates are the page dates ASIC shows.
ASIC describes Form 484 as the form to use to change company details such as address, officeholders and share structures. Its fee table lists change of registered office or principal place of business, cancellation of shares, issue of shares and change to share structure.
ASIC says the company must tell it about every share issue within 28 days after the issue. ASIC's Form 484 page gives the general deadline as within 28 days after the date of the change.
Yes. ASIC says the company must tell it of a transfer within 28 days. The steps use Form 484 and the Change to members register option, removing the shares from the transferor and adding them to the transferee.
ASIC says you lodge the form online in the relevant portal, which for a company is the company officeholder portal. ASIC's pages describe signing in with the company's ACN or ABN and a password, and having the corporate key ready. If you cannot lodge online, ASIC says to contact it.
ASIC's fee table says a late fee applies if it is not notified within 28 days after a share issue. ASIC's April 2026 InFocus says missing more than one deadline can mean more than one late fee. The current amounts are on ASIC's fees page.
Form 484 is the ASIC side of a share change. These guides cover the register it has to match, and the raise that usually triggers it.
What must be in a register of members, and the notification to ASIC under s178A.
Who you can offer shares to without a prospectus, before you issue them.