KINDLY NOTE THAT CAC HAS CHANGED THE PROCEDURE BELOW FOR ACCREDITATION, THOUGH YOU STILL NEED THE DOCUMENTS BELOW. THE NEW PROCEDURE NOW IS TO REGISTER DIRECTLY AS AN AGENT THOUGH CAC PORTAL.
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You get accredited from the comfort of your home. That is the beautiful thing with accreditation with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) during this period of social distancing. I have hereby prepared a comprehensive “new normal” guide to requirements for accreditation with the CAC.
A.
ELIGIBILITY
Professionals
eligible for accreditation with the CAC include:
1.
Legal
Practitioners,
2.
Chartered
Accountants,
3.
Chartered
Secretaries, and
4.
A firm of
any of the above professionals.
B.
FILL
OUT THE APPLICATION FORM FOR ACCREDITATION (CAC/ACR/1)
-
CLICK to download the form.
-
Fill out the
applicable parts. For an individual, simply fill out parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7, as
shown below.
C.
GATHER
THE ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS
The required
documents for accreditation for legal practitioners include:
1.
Your passport
photograph,
2.
Copy of
call to bar certificate,
3.
Copy of
LL. B certificate,
4.
Copy of
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) discharge certificate (or exemption),
5.
Copy of
receipt of payment of practicing fee the current year, and
6.
Evidence
of payment of prescribed fees.
D.
PAYMENT
OF PRESCRIBED FEES VIA REMITA
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The
prescribed fee for an individual is N5,000.00 (Five Thousand Naira).
-
N10,000.00
(Ten Thousand Naira) is the prescribed fee for a firm.
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Follow the procedure below to make payment via remita.net:
1.
Open a web
browser and go to remita.net
2.
Click on
“Pay TSA & States”
3.
Click on
“FGN: Federal Government of Nigeria”
4. Fill in the spaces as displayed below.
E.
SCAN
THE FILL OUT FORM AND THE ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS TOGETHER
If you do not have
access to an image scanner, you can scan the documents with your phone, using a
scanner app. I scanned mine through my phone, using CamScanner. If you use CamScanner, do not
border yourself trying to remove the CamScanner watermark. It does not affect your
application.
F.
SEND
AN EMAIL TO THE CAC, ATTACHING THE SCANNED DOCUMENTS
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Your
message must contain two (2) important information:
1.
The fact
that you are applying for accreditation, attaching the form together with the
accompanying documents, and
2.
An
information regarding the CAC branch closer to you where you want to pick up
your Accreditation Identity Card.
-
-
Displayed
below was the email I sent.
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G.
HAVE
PATIENCE
CAC contacted me (through a phone call) to come collect my Accreditation ID Card
exactly 21 days after I sent my application.
H.
COLLECTION
OF YOUR ACCREDITATION ID CARD
Go with the evidence of payment of the prescribed fee. The one you generated via remite.net.
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