Unit: Companies Registration Office

Companies Registration Office

Wednesday 1st of January 1908 - still active

Also Registrar of Friendly Societies (plan to formally merge)

From date: 1908-01-01
To date:
Source: McGauran et al. 2005; http://www.cro.ie/; Companies Acts, 1908 To 1917; Companies (Re-Constitution of Records) Act, 1924; Registration of Business Names Act, 1963
Confidence: Very Confident
Legal forms: Statutory non-departmental body
- Source: http://www.cro.ie/; Companies Acts, 1908 To 1917; Companies (Re-Constitution of Records) Act, 1924; Registration of Business Names Act, 1963
- From date: 1908-01-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Functions: Regulatory (over public and private sectors)
- Source: http://www.cro.ie/; Companies Acts, 1908 To 1917; Companies (Re-Constitution of Records) Act, 1924; Registration of Business Names Act, 1963
- From date: 1908-01-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Policy domains: General Public Services
- Source: http://www.cro.ie/; Companies Acts, 1908 To 1917; Companies (Re-Constitution of Records) Act, 1924; Registration of Business Names Act, 1963
- From date: 1908-01-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Industry and Commerce (I)
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924; S.I. No. 306/1977; Dáil Éireann - Volume 56 - 02 May, 1935--Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Limited Liability Companies
- From date: 1924-01-01
- To date: 1977-09-22
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Industry, Commerce and Energy
- Source: S.I. No. 306/1977; S.I. No. 10/1980; Dáil Éireann - Volume 304 - 14 March, 1978--Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Ministers of State
- From date: 1977-09-23
- To date: 1980-01-22
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Industry, Commerce, and Tourism
- Source: S.I. No. 10/1980; S.I. No. 290 of 1981
- From date: 1980-01-23
- To date: 1981-08-20
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Trade, Commerce and Tourism
- Source: S.I. No. 290/1981; S.I. No. 384/1983
- From date: 1981-08-21
- To date: 1983-12-16
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism
- Source: S.I. No. 384/1983; S.I. No. 41/1986
- From date: 1983-12-17
- To date: 1986-02-19
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Industry and Commerce (II)
- Source: S.I. No. 41/1986; S.I. No. 19/1993
- From date: 1986-02-19
- To date: 1993-01-19
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Enterprise and Employment
- Source: S.I. No. 19/1993; S.I. No. 305/1997
- From date: 1993-01-20
- To date: 1997-07-11
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (I)
- Source: S.I. No. 305/1997; http://www.cro.ie/; http://www.entemp.ie/; Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2010
- From date: 1997-07-12
- To date: 2010-05-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Source: http://www.entemp.ie/; Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2010; S.I. No. 245/2011
- From date: 2010-05-02
- To date: 2011-06-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Source: S.I. No. 245/2011; S.I. No. 364/2017
- From date: 2011-06-02
- To date: 2017-09-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation
- Source: S.I. No. 364/2017; S.I. No. 519/2020
- From date: 2017-09-02
- To date: 2020-11-10
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (II)
- Source: S.I. No. 519/2020
- From date: 2020-11-10
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Ministry of Industry and Commerce
- Source: Sixth Part of the Schedule to the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 (No. 16 of 1924)
- From date: 1922-04-01
- To date: 1924-06-02
- Confidence: Quite Confident
Counties: Dublin
- Source: http://www.cro.ie/
- From date: 1908-01-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: executive and legislative organs, financial and fiscal affairs, external affairs
- Source: http://www.cro.ie/; Companies Acts, 1908 To 1917; Companies (Re-Constitution of Records) Act, 1924; Registration of Business Names Act, 1963
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: general services
- Source: http://www.cro.ie/; Companies Acts, 1908 To 1917; Companies (Re-Constitution of Records) Act, 1924; Registration of Business Names Act, 1963
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: general public services NEC
- Source: http://www.cro.ie/; Companies Acts, 1908 To 1917; Companies (Re-Constitution of Records) Act, 1924; Registration of Business Names Act, 1963
- Confidence: Very Confident
FOI: yes
- Source: Freedom of Information Act 1997
- From date: 1998-04-21
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ombudsmans: yes
- Source: Ombudsman Act 1980
- From date: 1980-01-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
URL: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1924/act/21/enacted/en/html
URL: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1963/act/30/enacted/en/html
URL: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1963/act/33/enacted/en/html

Associated Events
Name	Date	From	To
Companies Act 1908	1908-01-01		Companies Registration Office

Unit Information

Companies Registration Office