Australian Company Number (ACN)

ID auacn

DatatypeNot PIIidentifier

An Australian Company Number (usually shortened to ACN) is a unique identifier required by every company registered under Australia’s Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

Categories: Companies/business/organizations
Countries: Australia
Languages: English
HL7 FHIR identifier system: http://hl7.org.au/id/acn
Presidio: AU_ACN
Microsoft Purview: Australia company number, Australian Company Number
python-stdnum: stdnum.au.acn
Wikidata: P3549
Quality: 90/100 · missing: negative example, translation
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: AWS Glue Sensitive Data Detection, Azure AI Language PII detection, DataPrep, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, OpenMetadata auto-classification, Microsoft Presidio, python-stdnum, Snowflake sensitive data classification

Regular expression

^\d{3} ?\d{3} ?\d{3}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
008984049	Wesfarmers
158571852	Australian National Line

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Company_Number
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3549

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Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/auacn
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