Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185:section:1272
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1272
Character Range: 5363128–5364660

1272  Giving and cancelling director identification numbers
 (1) The Registrar must, by notifying a person who has applied under section 1272A, give the person a director identification number if the Registrar is satisfied that the person's identity has been established.
 (1A) The Registrar may make a request of the person under subsection (5) for the purposes of satisfying the Registrar that the person's identity has been established.
 (2) The Registrar must make a record of the person's director identification number.
 (3) The Registrar may, by notifying a person, cancel the person's director identification number if:
 (a) the Registrar is no longer satisfied that the person's identity has been established; or
 (b) the Registrar has given the person another director identification number.
 (4) If:
 (a) at the time the person is given a director identification number under this section, the person is not an eligible officer; and
 (b) the person does not, within 12 months after that time, become an eligible officer;
the person's director identification number is taken to have been cancelled at the end of the 12 month period.
 (5) The Registrar may request, but not compel, the person:
 (a) if the person has a tax file number—to give the Registrar the person's tax file number; or
 (b) if the person does not have a tax file number:
 (i) to apply to the Commissioner of Taxation for a tax file number; and
 (ii) to give the Registrar the person's tax file number after the Commissioner of Taxation has issued it.