Guide
Managing your approved liquidator registration
Audience
Approved liquidators
Task or topic
Close business or deregister
Update registers or information
18 August 2025
Learn when your licence remains valid and your obligations. Update or withdraw your approved liquidator registration through Bizfile.
Note: ACRA no longer accepts new applications for approved liquidators or public accountants (PAs) wanting to become judicial managers (JMs).
To act as a liquidator, JM or trustee in bankruptcy (TIB) for new cases from 30 July 2020, you need to register as an Insolvency Practitioner with the Ministry of Law instead.
When your approved liquidator licence remains valid
If you were already an approved liquidator before 30 July 2020, your licence remains valid. You do not need to renew it when it expires.
The Minister declared all approved liquidators as a specific class of persons under section 9(1) of the Companies Act on 30 July 2020. This means that if you were already an approved liquidator before 30 July 2020, your licence remains valid until it is:
Cancelled voluntarily;
Or revoked by ACRA on grounds such as bankruptcy.
You do not need to renew your liquidator licence.
Cases that started before 30 June 2020
You can act as a liquidator for:
Winding up cases that started under the Companies Act or Limited Liability Partnerships Act before the IRDA came into effect and are still ongoing
Replacement liquidator roles when the appointed liquidator resigns or is no longer an approved liquidator
Variable capital company (VCC) cases
You can act as a liquidator for winding up cases for Variable Capital Companies and their sub-funds.
This applies during the interim period until the VCC Act updates to allow Insolvency Practitioners to undertake this work.
More details:
When your licence can be cancelled
Your approved liquidator licence remains valid unless either happens:
You voluntarily cancel it.
ACRA revokes it on grounds such as bankruptcy. View the list of approved liquidators whose license has been revoked by ACRA [PDF, 414 KB].
Note: If you are also a PA, you need to meet Continuing Professional Education (CPE) requirements to renew your PA registration.
Updating your particulars
You can update your information through Bizfile if any of your details have changed:
Open the General lodgement eService and log in.
Under "Approved liquidator", select Update information for approved liquidator.
Download and complete the manual form.
Submit the form.
Withdrawing from practice
If you no longer wish to practise as a liquidator, you can withdraw your registration through Bizfile:
Open the General lodgement eService and log in.
Under "Deregister", select Withdrawal from being an approved liquidator.
Download and complete the manual form.
Submit the form.
Note: Once you withdraw, you cannot act as a liquidator for any compulsory winding up cases unless you register as an Insolvency Practitioner with the Ministry of Law.
View the list of approved liquidators who have resigned [PDF, 115 KB].