What a statutory register is
A statutory register is the formal record that a company or not-for-profit is required to keep of certain details about itself. Depending on the entity, that can include its members, its directors and officers, and a record of particular decisions. The registers are not optional paperwork: they are part of how an organisation evidences who it is, who is responsible for it, and what it has formally decided.
Keeping the registers current is usually the company secretary's job, or the equivalent officer in a not-for-profit, on behalf of the board. The challenge is that the details change over time, a director resigns, members come and go, a resolution is passed, and each change needs to be reflected promptly and accurately. A register that drifts out of date is a governance risk, which is why many organisations want the record maintained as a live system rather than a document edited by hand.
Statutory registers in the Cohiva platform
Cohiva Quorum is a governance operating system for Australian boards. It models the Corporations Act, ACNC requirements and state association acts as data, and it manages board meetings, agendas, minutes, resolutions and obligations in one place. Because the governance steps that apply to an organisation are built into the workflow, the record of what the board decided and what the organisation must maintain live together.
Quorum is designed to support an organisation's obligations rather than to guarantee a compliance outcome. For company secretaries, directors and not-for-profit committees, that means governance records sit alongside the meetings and resolutions that change them. To see how it works, explore Quorum.