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Overview

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Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Sierra Leone and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: Unique computer-generated number covering all tax liabilities. Mandatory for all businesses. Registration number: Assigned at incorporation; appears on the Certificate of Incorporation.

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Sector regulators

BSL · SLSSEC · SLICOM

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How documents combine

For each evidence area, this table shows whether the listed documents are alternatives (any one of) or a bundle (all required). The artifact-by-artifact lookup follows below.

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Documents to collect

The physical documents you’ll collect from your customer, with the evidence area each one proves. One document can prove multiple areas — for example, Brazil’s Cartão CNPJ covers both tax and business-registration proof, so it appears once with both areas listed. Not applicable in Sierra Leone: Good Standing. Skip these areas — no local artifact exists.

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Collection notes

  • Legal Registration: Issued under Companies Act 2009; displays company name, number, and date.
  • Constitutive Documents: Submitted at incorporation; standard forms available at CAC.
  • Tax Registration: Issued by National Revenue Authority on business registration.
  • Operating Permit: Issued by Freetown City Council or relevant local council; valid 6 months, renewable.
  • Sector-Specific License: BSL for banking/payments; SLSSEC for securities; SLICOM for insurance.
  • Governance Records: Filed at incorporation and updated on change. Minimum 2 directors required (Companies Act 2009).
  • Signing Authority: Board resolution is the standard instrument; notarized PoA accepted for third-party representatives.
  • Address: Conduit universal policy: lease (no time bound) OR utility bill OR bank statement, with utility/bank dated within 90 days. Same evidence satisfies both registered-address and operating-address checks.

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Person roles

When you submit a person on the application body, set their role to one of Conduit’s canonical BusinessPersonRole values. Use this table to map a local corporate-governance title onto the right canonical role.

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Notes

  • Sierra Leone is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention (confirmed via HCCH status table — 129 contracting parties listed as of 31-XII-2025; Sierra Leone is absent). All foreign public documents require full consular legalization.
  • The AML/CFT/PF Act 2024 (Act No. 4 of 2024, in force 2024-06-06) is the operative AML statute; the Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA) is the competent authority.
  • CAC and OARG have distinct mandates: CAC registers companies (Ltd, PLC, guarantee companies); OARG registers sole proprietorships and partnerships. Accept certificates from both for their respective entity types.
  • Company Secretary qualifications under Companies Act 2009 s.252 require only that the secretary be a natural person resident in Sierra Leone with a legal, accounting, or prescribed professional qualification — no statutory 10-year practice floor applies to the secretary role (the 10-year requirement in the Act applies to the Commission Chairman (s.3) and the Registrar (s.9), not secretaries).
  • Sierra Leone is not an OHADA member; do not apply OHADA entity types or SYSCOHADA accounting rules.