Incorporation
We file your company's ADT-1 auditor appointment: first auditor, 5-year reappointment, replacement, or a casual vacancy, within the applicable 15-day window. Documentation and filing facilitation only.
ADT-1 covers a fixed 5-year auditor term rather than an annual filing, and you only refile on reappointment, replacement, or a casual vacancy. We handle whichever of those applies to you, filed within the 15-day window.
If you've read our article on why ADT-1 isn't an annual filing, you already know the 5-year rule. This service is the filing itself: whichever event triggers it, first auditor, reappointment at the end of a 5-year term, replacement, or a casual vacancy being filled, we prepare the resolution, collect the auditor's consent, and file within the 15-day deadline.
Scope
Drafted per the trigger: first auditor, reappointment, replacement, or casual vacancy.
Collected from the appointed auditor before we file anything.
Filed within 15 days of the triggering resolution.
Specifics
A statutory auditor's term runs from the AGM of appointment to the conclusion of the 6th AGM after it, a fixed 5 years under Section 139(1) of the Companies Act, 2013. One ADT-1 covers that whole term. You refile only when the term ends and the auditor is reappointed, when the auditor is replaced, or when a casual vacancy, resignation, death, or disqualification, is filled.
This is different from the first-auditor ADT-1 requirement that became mandatory in July 2025. That's a one-time filing at incorporation. This service covers the ongoing 5-year term after that first appointment, and the events that trigger a refiling within it. See our article for the full distinction.
ADT-1 is due within 15 days of the triggering board or shareholder resolution itself, which is usually a different date from your AGM. We track this from the moment the resolution is passed.
Process
Step 1 of 4
Trigger confirmed
We confirm which event applies: first auditor, reappointment, replacement, or casual vacancy.
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Clarifications
No. A statutory auditor's term runs 5 years, and one ADT-1 covers that whole term. You only refile on reappointment, replacement, or a casual vacancy.
15 days from the board or shareholder resolution appointing, reappointing, or replacing the auditor.
No, that's a separate, one-time filing at incorporation. This service covers the ongoing 5-year term afterward.
That's a casual vacancy, and it needs its own ADT-1 once it's filled, within 15 days of the resolution.
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