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Registering your business could broaden your potential client and supplier base, because many customers and suppliers prefer to deal with a Private Company as opposed to an individual. Furthermore, being registered will allow you to pitch for business to larger corporates and government.

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CIPC TERMS & CONDITIONS. Papkrast Group is registered on the CIPC website and has a BizPortal Account to apply for your company registration process. The term “annual return” means an annual return provided for in terms of section 173 of the Companies Act, 1973 (Act No. 61 of 1973), Close Corporations Act, 1984 (Act No. 69 of 1984) and the Companies Act, 2008 (Act No. 71 of 2008); “browser” means a computer program which allows a person to surf the internet and access websites; “CIPC” means the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission. Do you agree to the terms and conditions above? *

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NB: Private Companies must have at least 1 director. At least one of the appointed directors must also be appointed as an incorporator. A maximum of 10 directors is allowed on this platform.

COMPENSATION FUND TERMS & CONDITIONS. Introduction These conditions will govern the relationship between the Compensation Fund and the registered user on the BizPortal service as rendered by the Compensation Fund via the BizPortal web site. The user acknowledges that they have familiarized themselves with the contents in these Terms and Conditions, that they accept such terms and conditions, and that they are bound by the contents. This Agreement will commence when the Compensation Fund accepts the Users request to subscribe to Service, which acceptance will manifest at that point in time when the Compensation Fund sends the User an activation confirmation the "commencement date". Definitions "Consultant" means a person who acts on behalf of a User, an Employer or a company registered with the Compensation Fund; "Compensation Fund" means the Compensation Fund, an organ of the State established in terms of Section 15(1) of Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act 130 of 1993 read with Schedule 3 of Public Finance Management Act 1 of 1999 with its registered address located at the Office of the Compensation Fund, 167 Thabo Sehume Street,, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa. "BizPortal site" means the website through which the Compensation Fund provides the Service. "Employer" means any person, including the State, who employs an employee, and includes- (a) any person controlling the business of an employer; (b) if the services of an employee are lent or let or temporarily made available to some other person by his employer, such employer for such period as the employee works for that other person; (c) a labour broker who against payment provides a person to a client for the rendering of a service or the performance of work, and for which service or work such person is paid by the labour broker. "Service" means electronic registration and enquiry as well as any other services provided on the BizPortal site. "Submit" or "submission" means the action whereby the User electronically provides information or documents to the Compensation Fund. "Registration" means the action whereby the User indicates to the Compensation Fund that they want to utilize the service. "User" means all persons who access, view, download from, or use the BizPortal site whether on the Internet, mobile device or kiosk. "Users" includes "Employers". "Writing" means the act or process of producing and recording words in a form that can be read and understood and shall include e-mails, facsimile, e-registered or registered post; An expression which denotes: any gender includes the other genders; a natural person includes a juristic person and vice versa; the singular includes the plural and vice versa. Application These Terms and Conditions shall apply to all Users and becomes binding between the Compensation Fund and a User immediately upon the User accessing, viewing or using the Service or its contents. Electronic Communications When a User visits the BizPortal website or sends an e-mail to the Compensation Fund, that user consents to receiving communications from the Compensation Fund electronically and agrees that all agreements, statements. bills, notices, disclosures and other communications sent by the Compensation Fund satisfies any legal requirements, including but not limited, to the requirement that such communications are considered to be "in writing" with the same legal stature as a written document. The User accepts and acknowledges that, once the Employer is registered on BizPortal, the Compensation Fund will cease to send the Employer statements or Return of Earnings forms via manual postal delivery. Intellectual Property Rights And Domain Name Use All intellectual property rights in all materials and software made available through the BizPortal Service or site are owned by the Compensation Fund or a third party, or alternatively the Compensation Fund is the lawful user thereof, and are protected by both South African and international intellectual property right laws. The User agrees not to do anything that may infringe the Compensation Fund's' intellectual property rights in this regard, including but not limited to unauthorised copying, reproduction, retransmission, distribution, dissemination, sale, publication, or other circulation or exploitation of such material and shall comply with all laws applicable to any intellectual property rights (including without limitation trade secrets, copyright, trademarks, registered designs, and patents) in respect of any data, files and/or information accessed, retrieved or stored by the User through the User's use of the BizPortal Service. The User warrants that it will not use the BizPortal Service in any way that will infringe any person's intellectual property rights, and that it recognises and uses any service in accordance with the Compensation Fund's intellectual property rights. The User is prohibited from using the trademarks, logos, brand names, domain names or other marks of the Compensation Fund or BizPortal. Compensation Fund Consultant Where the User registers on behalf of an Employer and uses the service on behalf of such Employer, or acts as a consultant of such Employer, then the User warrants that they have obtained a written mandate from such Employer, which mandate will contain at least the following conditions: The User acts as a duly authorised consultant on behalf of the Employer; The Employer and the User are jointly and severally liable towards the Compensation Fund for all claims that the Compensation Fund might have in terms of this agreement against the Employer and/or the User, and; The User has disclosed the contents of this agreement to the Employer. Where a User registers, invites or authorises access to another person or third party, then such User warrants that they are jointly and severally liable towards the Compensation Fund for all claims that the Compensation Fund might have in terms of this agreement against the Employer and/or the User for all actions performed by such other person or third-party. User Name and Password During registration by the User on the BizPortal site, the User will create a unique username in such format as the Compensation Fund may determine from time to time. Unless otherwise specified, the User must change the initial password to a unique password of choice when requested to do so and/or when the BizPortal Service is accessed for the first time. The User undertakes to ensure that the username and password are neither easily accessible nor disclosed to any unauthorized person. Storing the username and/or password on a computer or network will be regarded as prima facie negligence. The User undertakes to report any actual or attempted unauthorised access to the Compensation Fund, without delay, via the BizPortal call centre and provide the Compensation Fund with written confirmation thereof within 24 (twenty-four) hours of such notification. On receipt of notification, the Compensation Fund reserves the right to deactivate the user name and/or password without further notice. The Compensation Fund may at its sole discretion and for whatever reason, require a User to change their username and/or password from time to time and the User undertakes to unconditionally comply with such a requirement. The Compensation Fund may temporarily or permanently suspend a User's access to the BizPortal Service in the event that the User abuses, commits or attempts to commit any form of fraud or undesirable activity, or the Compensation Fund detects any potential threat by the User on the BizPortal site. Duties of the Compensation Fund The BizPortal Service will provide access to monthly account statements and inform Users when a new statement or bill is made available on the BizPortal site. The Employer remains liable for payment of contributions and the failure to provide a notification or statement to the Employer or User does not negate this liability. The BizPortal Service will provide facilities to register employers, submit information and provide an on-line enquiry facility. Disputes The User will refer any dispute that may arise out of this Agreement to the BizPortal call centre, who will attempt to resolve the dispute through settlement, negotiation or mediation. If the dispute has not been resolved within 10 (ten) business days after it was referred to the BizPortal call centre, the User may refer the dispute to the Compensation Fund's legal department, or if payment related to the Chief Financial Officer of the Compensation Fund. Any person who in connection with a claim for compensation in terms of this Act, or in any return, notice, report or statement to be given, made or furnished in terms of this Act, makes or causes to be made any statement which is false in a material respect, knowing it to be false, shall be guilty of an offence. Refund Policy Payments for contributions are non refundable. In the event that a user makes an erroneous payment or in the event that a user wishes to dispute any payment already processed then the Employer must log a dispute with the Compensation Fund Finance department. No refunds will be processed via the BizPortal service. Information and Privacy The User acknowledges that they are solely responsible for the accuracy and correctness of all information submitted to the Compensation Fund. The Compensation Fund understands that the information provided by the User or Employer to the Compensation Fund (the "information"), includes private and sensitive information. The Compensation Fund will, save for the circumstances as set out in this clause 12, not share any such information with any third party without the prior consent of the User or Employer. The Compensation Fund will only disclose the information to a third party: to perform the Service; if the Compensation Fund is required by law or court order to disclose the information; and/or if legislation or a government Act provides for such disclosure. The Compensation Fund will store information on its system for a period of 12 (twelve) months after the termination of this agreement, or for a period of 2 (two) years after submission of information if this agreement remains in force for longer than 2 (two), whichever might be the case. Although the Compensation Fund will take all reasonable measures to ensure that the information will not be compromised, the User and Employer acknowledges that they need to keep copies of the information under their own control in order to mitigate potential damages that might result from a loss or corruption of information. Use of User Information by the Compensation Fund The Compensation Fund may distribute, loan, sell or otherwise share with other persons or entities information constituting or descriptive of demographic information, habits, usage patterns, preferences, survey data or other descriptive or related data which does not permit recipients to individually identify any particular User of the service. The Compensation Fund will be entitled in its sole discretion, and without notice, to provide user information and records to the courts, law enforcement agencies, others involved in prosecuting claims or investigations for conduct or conditions alleged or believed to be illegal or the violation or threatening of rights of any person or entity, and to maintain and use such information and records internally. The Compensation Fund may provide online, mobile communication methods, and e-mail communications to the user on matters pertaining to the service, its features, its sponsors, or its use without compensation to the user, but shall do so reasonably and in good faith. The user acknowledges: That communications within the BizPortal Service may be monitored or reviewed for quality control and other reasonable business and/or legal purposes; The use of User information and the disposal or dissemination thereof shall not constitute invasion of privacy by the Compensation Fund. Use of BizPortal and Software It is the responsibility of the User to acquire and maintain, at his/her own expense, the computer hardware, system and information security, software, telecommunications lines and access to the Internet and the BizPortal website and/or download content from BizPortal. Software, if any, made available for download on or via the website is governed by the license conditions establishing a legal relationship between the User and the licensor of such software. The user indemnifies the Compensation Fund against any breach of such license conditions. The Compensation Fund gives no warranty and makes no representation, whether express or implied, as to the quality or compatibility of such software. The Compensation Fund hereby grants the User the right to view, download and print the content of the BizPortal site for the purposes of accessing and using the BizPortal services, provided that such content is only used by the User for personal, educational or non-commercial purposes. No further reproduction or any form of distribution of the content on the BizPortal site is permitted. Users may only access and use the BizPortal Service for the purpose of interacting with the Department and paying for services. The Compensation Fund and its consultants shall not be liable, in any manner whatsoever, for any damage, loss or liability that results from the use of the e=Ekurhuleni Service or information contained within the BizPortal site. Unavailability of the Compensation Fund Services The Compensation Fund shall at all times and for whatever reason, have the sole and exclusive right to suspend or terminate the Service with prior written notification and provide reason for such termination or suspension. However, without prejudice to the foregoing, the Compensation Fund will not exercise its rights in terms of this clause without just cause. The user acknowledges and accepts that the Compensation Fund service may become unavailable from time-to-time due to various circumstances, including: technical failure or problems with the BizPortal service; infrastructure or technical problems with third party information technology systems; unavailability of telecommunication or electricity department services; or other circumstances beyond the control of the Compensation Fund. Without derogating from the provisions of this clause, the user undertakes to limit their potential debt caused by any unavailability of the Service by making use of alternative submission, enquiry and payment methods available to employers. Changes and Amendments The Compensation Fund expressly reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to do any of the following, at any time without prior notice to the User: change these Terms and Conditions; change the content and/or services available from BizPortal; discontinue any aspect of the BizPortal service; and/or change the software and hardware required to access and use BizPortal. Any new version of the Terms and Conditions will be displayed on BizPortal. It is the Users obligation to visit BizPortal on a regular basis in order to determine whether any amendments have been made to the Terms and Conditions. By accessing BizPortal, the User will be bound by the latest version of the Terms and Conditions, as published on BizPortal. No Warranties or Representations The Terms and Conditions evidences the sole terms and conditions governing the Services. Users acknowledge and agree that any warranties, statements or representations of whatever nature and in whatever form, including promotional materials, granted or made by the Compensation Fund, its employees, consultants or advisors which are not stated in the Terms and Conditions shall not be valid and enforceable and Users shall not hold the Compensation Fund liable to any such warranty or representation, whether made prior to, during or after concluding the Terms and Conditions. To the extent permitted by law, the Compensation Fund (including its employees, suppliers, Internet service providers, partners, affiliates and consultants) shall not be liable for any damage, loss or liability of any nature incurred by person and resulting from; access to BizPortal; access to websites linked to BizPortal; inability to access BizPortal; inability to access websites linked to BizPortal; content available on BizPortal; services available from BizPortal; and/or downloads and use of content from BizPortal. The Compensation Fund site and Service are provided "as is" and the Compensation Fund makes no express or implied representations or warranties with regard thereto. Without limiting the generality of the a foregoing:- the Compensation Fund does not warrant that the website, its contents, any third party content and services, payment or the Services will be error free or will meet any particular criteria of accuracy, completeness or reliability of information, performance or quality. The Compensation Fund expressly disclaims all implied warranties, including, without limitation, warranties of merchantability, title, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy; and whilst the Compensation Fund has taken reasonable measures to ensure the integrity of the Services, no warranty, whether express or implied is given that any files, downloads or applications available via the website are free of viruses or any other data or code which has the ability to corrupt or affect the operation of a user's system. Governing Law and Jurisdiction These conditions are governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa. *

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