CIPC Announces Changes to Reinstatement Processes for Companies and Close Corporations
The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) has updated its procedures for reinstatement applications (Form CoR 40.5) and related enquiries. Due to efforts to streamline operations, CIPC has achieved significant progress in reducing the processing time for reinstatement applications, which is now down to 5–6 working days from the previous 15 working days.
Accountants and relevant parties are advised to adhere to new instructions to avoid processing delays and duplications. Specifically, the CIPC requests that customers:
Do not resend applications or include the reinstatements email (reinstatements@cipc.co.za) when making enquiries to the dedicated email (enqreinstatements@cipc.co.za). This practice previously created duplicate or triplicate applications in the system.
Direct all reinstatement-related enquiries to enqreinstatements@cipc.co.za without copying other mailboxes to prevent creating duplicate enquiries which could delay processing.
If you have unanswered enquiries that was sent to enqreinstatements@cipc.co.za on or before 30 April 2024, you need to resend these to ensure they are addressed under the revised timelines.
Read more on this in CIPC Notice 36 of 2024.
