AU (Australia)

Property	Value
A standardized code according to an ISO standard, e.g. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 for regions. ISO code	AU
Language-specific name. Monolingual name	Australien (de), 澳大利亚 (zh), Australie (fr), Australia (en)
Language-specific short name. Monolingual short name	澳大利亚 (zh), Australie (fr), Australia (en), Australien (de)
Language-specific term used to denote a connection to a particular country, often describing the language, culture, or people associated with it. Monolingual nationality	Australien (fr), Australisch (de), Australian (en), 澳大利亚 (zh)
Language-specific term used to denote a connection to a particular country, often describing the language, culture, or people associated with it, max. 15 characters. Monolingual nationality (short)	Australien (fr), Australisch (de), Australian (en), 澳大利亚 (zh)
The offical langauge of a country. Official language	en
Language used in a country, beside the administrative languages. other language	fr
Status of the name assignment according to ISO standard. ISO status	officially-assigned
Continent a country belongs to. Part of	Australia

Regions

Region	A standardized code according to an ISO standard, e.g. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 for regions. ISO code	Language-specific name. Monolingual name	Language-specific alternative, i.e. non-official, name. Alternative name
AU-ACT (Australian Capital Territory)	AU-ACT	Territoire de la capitale australienne (fr), Australian Capital Territory (de), 澳大利亞首都特區 (zh), Australian Capital Territory (en)	AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (en)
AU-NSW (New South Wales)	AU-NSW	Nouvelle-Galles du Sud (fr), New South Wales (en), 新南威爾士州 (zh), New South Wales (de)	NEW SOUTH WALES (en)
AU-NT (Northern Territory)	AU-NT	Northern Territory (en), Territoire du Nord (fr), Nordterritorium (de), 北領地 (zh)	NORTHERN TERRITORY (en)
AU-QLD (Queensland)	AU-QLD	Queensland (de), 昆士蘭州 (zh), Queensland (en), Queensland (fr)	QUEENSLAND (en)
AU-SA (South Australia)	AU-SA	南澳大利亚州 (zh), South Australia (de), South Australia (en), Australie-Méridionale (fr)	SOUTH AUSTRALIA (en)
AU-TAS (Tasmania)	AU-TAS	塔斯馬尼亞州 (zh), Tasmania (en), Tasmanie (fr), Tasmanien (de)	TASMANIA (en)
AU-VIC (Victoria)	AU-VIC	Victoria (fr), Victoria (en), 維多利亞州 (zh), Victoria (de)	VICTORIA (en)
AU-WA (Western Australia)	AU-WA	Australie-Occidentale (fr), Western Australia (en), Western Australia (de), 西澳大利亚州 (zh)	WESTERN AUSTRALIA (en)

Legal forms

Legal form	Name	Main abbreviation	description	Category
AU_0004 (CDQ)	Limited Partnership (en)	LPT (en) A Limited Partnership (en) An Incorporated Limited Partnership (en) LP (en) LP. (en) Lp. (en) Lp (en) I.L.P (en) ILP (en)	An Australian Limited Partnership consists of at least one general partner who manages the business and is liable without limit and one or more limited partners whose exposure is capped at their agreed contribution. Limited partners must stay out of management to preserve that protection. The form is registered at state level and is used mainly for investment vehicles, property syndicates and venture capital structures. For tax purposes most limited partnerships are treated as companies, with the exception of certain registered venture capital partnerships.	Limited Partnership
AU_0105 (CDQ)	Family Partnership (en)	FPT (en)	A Family Partnership in Australia is a partnership whose partners are members of the same family, often used to run a farm, a small business or a property portfolio together. Partners share profits according to their agreement and each is jointly liable for the debts of the business without limit. The arrangement is simple to establish and allows income to be spread among family members, subject to anti-avoidance rules. Because there is no separate legal person, contracts are made with the partners themselves.	Civil Law Partnership
AU_0165 (CDQ)	Individual/Sole Trader (en)	IND (en)	An Individual or Sole Trader in Australia is a person carrying on business in their own right under an Australian Business Number. There is no legal separation between the person and the enterprise, so the owner keeps all profits and is personally liable for all debts and obligations. Setup and compliance are minimal, which makes it the most common structure for tradespeople, contractors and small service businesses. Business income is taxed at the individual's personal rate.	Sole Proprietorship
AU_0171 (CDQ)	Other trust (en)		This category covers Australian trusts that do not fall into one of the more specific trust classes such as unit, discretionary or superannuation trusts. In a trust a trustee holds and deals with assets for the benefit of beneficiaries under the terms of a trust deed. The trust itself is not a legal person, so contracts are signed by the trustee, who is personally liable but usually entitled to be indemnified out of trust assets. Anyone dealing with a trust should identify the trustee and confirm its authority under the deed.	Trust
AU_0816 (CDQ)	Co-operative (en)	Coop Ltd (en)	An Australian Co-operative is owned and controlled by its members, who are typically also its customers, suppliers or employees. Voting follows the one member one vote principle rather than the size of shareholdings, and surpluses are returned to members or reinvested in the enterprise. Co-operatives are registered under state and territory cooperative legislation and may be distributing or non-distributing. They are prominent in agriculture, retail, fishing and community services.	Co-operative Partnership
AU_1947 (CDQ)	Incorporated (en)	Inc (en)	Incorporated indicates an Australian incorporated association, a not-for-profit body registered under state or territory associations legislation. Registration gives the group legal personality so that it can hold property, open bank accounts and contract in its own name while shielding members from its debts. It is the standard structure for sporting clubs, community groups, charities and cultural organisations operating within one jurisdiction. Surpluses must be applied to the association's purposes and cannot be distributed to members.	Society
AU_2584 (CDQ)	Public Company limited by shares (en)	Ltd (en)	A Public Company Limited by Shares is the Australian form used for listed and widely held companies. Its shares may be offered to the public and traded, and shareholders are liable only for amounts unpaid on their shares. It must have at least three directors, hold annual general meetings, and lodge audited financial reports with the corporate regulator. It is the vehicle for companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and for large private enterprises with many shareholders.	Public Company Limited by Shares
AU_4163 (CDQ)	No liability company (en)	NL (en)	A No Liability Company is an Australian company type reserved for mining exploration, in which shareholders are not obliged to pay any calls made on their partly paid shares. If a shareholder declines to pay a call, the shares are forfeited rather than the debt being enforced. The structure reflects the speculative nature of exploration, where investors may not wish to fund further work. Such a company must state in its constitution that its sole objects are mining exploration.	Unknown
AU_5307 (CDQ)	Public Company limited by guarantee (en)	Ltd (en)	A Public Company Limited by Guarantee is an Australian company without share capital whose members guarantee a small fixed amount towards debts on a winding up. It cannot distribute profits to members, which makes it the standard vehicle for charities, industry associations, professional bodies and large not-for-profits. It is registered nationally and faces reporting obligations that scale with its revenue, with charities also reporting to the charities regulator. Counterparties should note that member guarantees are nominal and give little security.	Public Company Limited by Shares
AU_5803 (CDQ)	Trust (en)		A Trust in Australia is an arrangement in which a trustee holds property and carries on activity for the benefit of beneficiaries under a trust deed. Trusts are extremely common for family businesses, investment holdings and property, because income can be distributed flexibly and assets can be separated from personal risk. The trust has no legal personality, so the trustee, often a company created for the purpose, is the contracting party. Business partners should check the deed for the trustee's powers and its right of indemnity.
AU_6881 (CDQ)	Limited Proprietary Company (en)	Pty Ltd (en)	A Proprietary Limited Company is the workhorse private company of Australia, identified by the suffix Pty Ltd. Shareholders are liable only for amounts unpaid on their shares, the company may have up to fifty non-employee shareholders, and it cannot raise funds from the general public. It requires at least one director resident in Australia and is registered nationally with the corporate regulator. Small proprietary companies have limited reporting duties, which keeps compliance costs modest.	Limited Liability Company
AU_6925 (CDQ)	Fund (en)		A Fund in the Australian context is a pooled investment or superannuation vehicle in which contributions from many participants are invested collectively. Depending on the structure it may be organised as a trust with a responsible entity, as a company or as a regulated superannuation entity. Managed investment schemes offered to retail investors must be registered with the corporate regulator, and superannuation funds are supervised by the prudential regulator. Counterparties normally contract with the trustee or manager rather than with the fund itself.
AU_8056 (CDQ)	Unlimited Proprietary Company (en)	Pty (en)	An Unlimited Proprietary Company is an Australian private company whose members have no cap on their liability for company debts if it is wound up. In exchange the structure allows greater freedom in returning capital to shareholders. It is a rare form, used chiefly in professional and investment arrangements where the owners accept full responsibility. Counterparties can ultimately look to the members if the company's own assets fall short.	Limited Liability Company
AU_9136 (CDQ)	Indigenous Corporation (en)	RNTBC (en)	An Indigenous Corporation is registered under Australia's dedicated legislation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations and supervised by a specialist registrar. It provides a corporate structure adapted to Indigenous governance, including rules on membership, meetings and cultural decision making. Many such corporations hold native title rights on behalf of a group or deliver community, health and land management services. The regulator offers support and can intervene where governance breaks down.	Corporation

Identifiers

Identifier	Name	Registration authority
ABN_AU (AU - Business Number)	Australian Business Number (en)
ACN_AU (AU - Australian Company Number)	Australian Company Number (en)

Data quality rules

Data quality rule	The country a linked concept is active or generally relevant for. Country scope	Informal and comprehensive human-readable definition of a concept. Description	Criticality<br/>Specifies how critical of the violation of a data quality rule.<br/>ERROR: Indicates a critical data quality rule violation that requires correction.<br/>WARNING: Indicates a potential data quality issue that should be reviewed.<br/>INFO: Indicates an informational finding with no immediate impact on data quality. Criticality	Rule release status<br/>The release status in terms of development progress or maturity of a data quality rule.<br/>IDEA: Initial rule definition that documents a business requirement but is not yet active in services.<br/>PLANNED: Rule is specified and scheduled for implementation, but not yet active in services.<br/>DRAFT: Rule concept is being prepared or refined but is not yet finalized for implementation or execution.<br/>HYPERCARE: Rule is newly released and under increased observation to ensure stable behaviour and correct results.<br/>RELEASED: Rule has passed verification and is actively executed in productive CDQ services.<br/>DEACTIVATED: Rule is temporarily removed from the active rule set because it needs correction or clarification before re release.<br/>BLOCKED: Rule cannot be released because something it depends on is missing, for example a data source or a clarification.<br/>ARCHIVED: Rule is permanently retired and no longer maintained or intended for future activation. Rule release status
Dummy post code detected (AU) ACCURACY	AU (Australia)	Australian post codes are checked here against patterns that indicate a dubious value instead of a real post code. Taken from the CDQ regular expression library, the patterns cover a mononumerical post code with a delimiter, a not available post code, one digit repeated several times, an ordinal sequence of numbers, a single digit post code and an excessively long string of digits.	ERROR	RELEASED
Identifier Qualification (Business Number (Australia), Data source:AU.BR) ACCURACY	AU (Australia)	This rule compares the Australian Business Number in the business partner record with the identifier held as reference in the Australian business register. A value that does not match is flagged.	INFO	RELEASED(2025-06-25)
Identifier format inaccurate (Australian Company Number (Australia)) REPRESENTATIONAL_CONSISTENCY	AU (Australia)	The Australian Company Number consists of nine digits. By convention it is displayed as three blocks of three characters separated by blanks, in the form XXX XXX XXX, purely to aid readability, those blanks are not part of the number itself. This rule checks the value against the reference format and flags any whitespace, dot or hyphen that appears where the format does not provide for it.	INFO	IDEA(2020-01-01)
Identifier format inaccurate (Business Number (Australia)) REPRESENTATIONAL_CONSISTENCY	AU (Australia)	The Australian Business Number consists of eleven digits and is written in the form 99 999 999 999. This rule checks whether the value follows that reference format and flags any whitespace in a position where none is expected, as well as any hyphen or dot.	INFO	IDEA(2020-01-01)
Identifier format invalid (Business Number (Australia)) REPRESENTATIONAL_CONSISTENCY	AU (Australia)	The Australian Business Number (ABN) is issued to every entity registered in the Australian Business Register. It is eleven digits long and consists of a nine-digit identifier preceded by two check digits, which are derived with a modulus 89 calculation, meaning the remainder after dividing by 89. This rule checks that the nine digits and the prefix are present, disregarding any whitespaces, hyphens or dots in the value. A value with fewer or more digits, or with unexpected non-digit characters, violates the rule.	INFO	RELEASED(2020-01-01)
Identifier missing (Business Number (Australia)) COMPLETENESS	AU (Australia)	Every legal entity in Australia is expected to hold a Business Number. This rule reports records for which the identifier has not been maintained.	WARNING	RELEASED(2024-04-16)
Identifier unknown (Australian Business Number (Australia)) ACCURACY	AU (Australia)	This rule checks whether the Australian Business Number of a business partner really exists by looking it up in the Australian business register. A number that cannot be found there is treated as invalid.	ERROR	RELEASED(2024-04-16)
Invalid checksum of ABN AU (Australia) ACCURACY	AU (Australia)	The Australian Business Number is eleven digits long and consists of a nine-digit identifier preceded by two check digits. This rule verifies the number against those check digits, which are derived with a modulus 89 calculation, meaning the remainder after dividing by 89. For the positions C1 to C11 the weights M11 down to M1 are 10, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19. The first digit has 1 subtracted from it before being weighted, all weighted values are added together, and for a valid ABN that total modulo 89 is zero. Any other result is flagged.	ERROR	RELEASED(2020-10-12)
Invalid checksum of ACN AU (Australia) ACCURACY	AU (Australia)	The Australian Company Number is a nine-digit number whose last digit is a check digit calculated with a modified modulus 10 calculation. This rule recomputes the check digit and reports a number that fails the check.	ERROR	RELEASED(2020-10-12)
Legal form invalid (Australia) ACCURACY	AU (Australia)	The legal form recorded for a business partner in Australia must be a legal form that exists in Australia. Records carrying any other value are flagged.	INFO	IDEA
Length of national bank Id invalid (Australia) REPRESENTATIONAL_CONSISTENCY	AU (Australia)	In Australia the domestic bank identifier must not be longer than the maximum length defined for the country. This rule flags such values.	ERROR	RELEASED(2024-04-16)
Mandatory administrative area missing (Australia) COMPLETENESS	AU (Australia)	An Australian address is only usable when it names the administrative area, that is the state or territory. This rule flags addresses in which the state or territory is missing.	ERROR	RELEASED(2020-01-01)
Mandatory locality missing (Australia) COMPLETENESS	AU (Australia)	A street address in Australia is only complete when it states the locality, and this rule flags addresses that leave it out.	ERROR	RELEASED(2020-01-01)
Mandatory post code missing (Australia) COMPLETENESS	AU (Australia)	In Australia the post code is a mandatory part of a street address, and the rule reports records in which it is missing.	ERROR	RELEASED(2020-01-01)
Mandatory thoroughfare missing (Australia) COMPLETENESS	AU (Australia)	Street addresses in Australia are incomplete without the thoroughfare, and every record that lacks the street is flagged.	ERROR	RELEASED(2020-01-01)
Name Qualification (Business Number (Australia), Data source:AU.BR) ACCURACY	AU (Australia)	This rule compares the name of an Australian business partner with the name that the Australian business register holds as reference for its Business Number. A deviating name is flagged.	INFO	RELEASED(2024-04-16)
Post code Qualification (Business Number (Australia), Data source:AU.BR) ACCURACY	AU (Australia)	This rule compares the post code of an Australian business partner with the post code that the Australian business register holds as reference for its Business Number. A deviating post code is flagged.	INFO	RELEASED(2024-04-16)
Post code format invalid (Australia) REPRESENTATIONAL_CONSISTENCY	AU (Australia)	This rule checks the post code format of Australia. Postal codes consist of a block of four digits: the first indicates the state or territory, the second a zone and the final two the delivery office. Most municipalities, settlements and suburbs have a code of their own. Post office boxes carry different postal codes from street addresses, and large users may also have a unique code, so a company can have two codes, in that case the mailing address, that is the post office box or large user code, should be used in preference to the street address.	ERROR	RELEASED(2020-01-01)
Unallowed pattern in name detected (AU) ACCURACY	AU (Australia)	For business partners in Australia this rule detects names that follow a dubious pattern rather than identifying a real company. Drawing on the CDQ regular expression library, it looks for a one time vendor, aggregated payments, a no new orders note, a do not use duplicates note, a reference to another record, a no use note, a reference to a new record, a reference to the former name, a long number in the name, a duplicate record note, a deletion note, a dummy record note, a sequence of digits, unsorted keywords and the length of the name.	WARNING	RELEASED(2024-09-04)

Data sources

Data source	An informal and short human-readable definition of a concept, in terms of a 'one-liner'. Short description	The release status in terms of development progress or maturity.<br/><code>EMPTY</code> (0): No feature considered yet, just a rough idea.<br/><code>IDEA</code> (1): Just an idea, not yet designed in detail.<br/><code>DESIGN</code> (2): Software design ready, development not yet started.<br/><code>DEVELOPMENT</code> (3): Software development in progress.<br/><code>ALPHA</code> (4): First functional release, in terms of a Minimal Viable Product (MVP).<br/><code>BETA</code> (5): Tested by selected users.<br/><code>RC</code> (6): Release candidate, fully tested, not yet used in production by many customers.<br/><code>LIVE</code> (7): Used in production by customers, fully monitored and supported.<br/><code>DEPRECATED</code> (-1): End of life planned, but still available.<br/><code>EOL</code> (-2): End of life, historic service, no longer available.<br/><code>BROKEN</code> (-3): Service was used in production but is currently not available. However, CDQ tries to repair or reactivate it.<br/><code>DISCONTINUED</code> (-4): The data source has ceased providing updates, nonetheless, we continue to offer the most recent available data. Release status
AU.BR (data source) Australian Business Register	Publicly available information supplied by businesses when they register for an Australian Business Number.	LIVE 4,828,588 records
AU.ASIC (data source) ASIC Business Names	n/a	IDEA
AU.CR (data source) Australia post	n/a	IDEA
AU.GNAF (data source) Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF)	n/a	IDEA

Banking metadata

Property	Value
Full metadata	Bank accounts in Australia
Local name of the national bank ID. Bank ID name	BSB Number (Bank State Branch)
The provider (national authorities in most cases) of the national bank ID. Bank ID provider	Australian Payments Clearing Association
Currency code for accounting in the given country. Currency code	AUD
Maximum length of the national bank ID. Maximum bank ID length	16