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A list of registered companies and key data about each company. Open data from company registers may be used for many ends: e.g. enabling customers and businesses to see with whom they deal, or to see where a company has registered offices. This definition draws on the work of OpenCorporates.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Downloadable | Yes | It is possible to download each company page as a pdf |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | No licence terms found |
| Up-to-date | Yes | It is possible to search companies by registration date and results become available for May and June. |
| In an open and machine-readable format | Only PDF files available | |
| location | https://portalmns.mu/MNSOnlineSearch/ - | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | Google search | |
| characteristics | Name of company, Physical company location, Unique identifier per company, Company owner, Date of registration (and dissolution), Financial statements per company, per year, Register available for entire country | |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Corporate and Business Registration Department | The Corporate and Business Registration Department is a government office, which falls under the aegis of the Ministry Of Finance and Economic Development. It administers the Companies Act 2001, the Business Registration Act 2002, the Insolvency Act 2009,The Limited Partnerships Act 2011 and The Foundations Act 2012. The Office is the sole place where one may obtain information about these entities. The Corporate and Business Registration Department has the following main functions: The incorporation, registration and striking-off of companies, The registration of documents that must be filed under the Companies Act 2001, The provision of company information to the public, Developed CBRIS, a service to electronically search for company names. |