{"id":24907,"date":"2026-11-06T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/?p=24907"},"modified":"2026-11-06T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:47:59","slug":"cipc-closure-notice-04-december-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/?p=24907","title":{"rendered":"CIPC closure notice: 04 December 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#e7e7e8&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.18.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#e7e7e8&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; 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and<\/li>\n<li>CIPC Kiosk in Pavilion Shopping Centre in Jack Martens Drive in Westville;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">will re-open at 08h00 on Monday 7 December 2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lodgment of documents and services of legal documents will be accepted on Thursday 3 December 2026 until 15h30.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The day of 04 December 2026 will be regarded as<em> dies non for purposes of the stated Acts<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CIPC offers different lodgment\/filing methods for certain services to its customers.\u00a0 During this period, services processed by automated means will continue to be processed, while those services which require back-office intervention\/finalisation, e.g. services which require scanned documents to be e-mailed to dedicated e-mail addresses or uploaded via electronic platforms, e.g. New E-Services, will only resume from Monday 7 December 2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Please also take note that with regards to name reservations, all reserved names that would have lapsed on Friday 4 December 2026 will now have their reservation dates moved forward to Monday 7 December 2026 and will, therefore, only elapse on that date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SCHEDULE<\/strong><br \/>Trade Marks Act, 1993<br \/>Patents Act, 1978<br \/>Design Act, 1993<br \/>Copyright Act, 1978<br \/>Companies Act, 2008<br \/>Close Corporations Act, 1984<br \/>Co-operatives Act, 2005<br \/>Registration of Copyright in Cinematograph Film Act, 1977<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/signed-CIPC-closure-notice-4-December-2026.pdf\">Notice 59 of 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking into consideration that CIPC official office days are Monday to Friday and does not include weekends or public holidays, notice is hereby given, in terms of and for purposes of the Acts mentioned in the Schedule below, that CIPC will be closed to the public on Friday 4 December 2026.\u00a0 The CIPC Offices at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24911,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24907\/revisions\/24911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}