# About afs-rep — what this site is and is not

> Where the data comes from, what it cannot tell you, and who publishes this site.

## About this site

A search layer over two public registers. Not the registers themselves, not legal advice, and not a judgement on anyone.

### The source

Everything here comes from ASIC's
 AFS Authorised Representative
Dataset and its AFS Licensee Dataset, published on data.gov.au under
 CC-BY 3.0 AU and
collected on **2026-08-19** through the portal's own API.

362,694 authorisation rows became 237,078 representatives, joined to
4,474 named licensees.

### The join that fails if you take the fields as they come

Representative rows record the licence as `000226403`; the
licensee file records it as `226403`. Joined literally, the two
registers share **nothing at all** — 0 matches out of
6,904. Stripping the leading zeros gives 4,474. It is
worth saying out loud because anyone doing this by hand will hit it.

### ⚠️ Three things this site will not say

- **“Licence cancelled.”** 2,430
licence numbers here are absent from ASIC's current licensee file. We have no
cancellation dates and no reasons. The site says *not in the current
file*, and stops there.
- **“No longer practising.”** 187,346
representatives have no authorisation in force. They may hold a licence
themselves, appear on another register, or have retired. The register cannot
distinguish those cases and neither can we.
- **Anything about the merits.** Being on this register is a
legal fact, not a recommendation; being absent is not an accusation.

### What this site is not

- **Not legal or financial advice.**
- **Not the official register.** For anything that matters, use
ASIC's own registers.
- **Not affiliated** with ASIC, AFCA, the CSLR or the
Australian Government.
- **Not a law firm.** We take no share of anything
recovered.

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Página: https://afs-rep.pages.dev/about/
Fonte: ASIC AFS Authorised Representative Dataset and AFS Licensee Dataset — Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Recolha: 2026-08-19