Is the certificate of registration issued by Cleardocs sufficient to give a bank?
Yes, the Certificate of Registration that Cleardocs receives electronically from ASIC and provides to you electronically is the original certificate. The only way ASIC provides its standard Certificates is electronically. The standard certificate is enough to open a bank account and is what most companies use. (Apart from the standard certificate, you can order a hardcopy printed “commemorative certificate” direct from ASIC. These commemorative certificates cost extra.) Bank rejection? Occasionally when a Cleardocs customer is trying to set up a bank account, the bank rejects the certificate that the customer received from Cleardocs electronically and then printed and provided to the bank. A bank that does this — or at least, the relevant branch that does this — is several years out of date with ASIC’s systems etc. If a bank rejects your certificate and asks “for the original certificate”, then the thing to do is to get the person at the bank to check the above information with ASIC. T
