Treasury & financeAgencyExists today
Australian Financial Security Authority
AFSA
15 August 2013 – present
Previously Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia (1996–2013).
Executive agency that administers Australia's personal insolvency system, regulates insolvency practitioners, runs the Personal Property Securities Register and manages property confiscated under proceeds of crime laws.
Names over time
- Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia1996–2013
- Australian Financial Security Authority2013–present
How it came into existence
The Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia renamed on 15 August 2013 by an order allocating the new name to the existing executive agency, reflecting its wider role including the Personal Property Securities Register.
Legislation: Bankruptcy Act 1966; Personal Property Securities Act 2009
Main functions
- Official Receiver and Official Trustee in Bankruptcy
- Regulation of personal insolvency practitioners
- Personal Property Securities Register
- National Personal Insolvency Index
- Management of confiscated and restrained criminal assets
Where it sits
In the portfolio of Department of the Treasury.
- Type of body
- Non-corporate Commonwealth entity
- Portfolio
- Treasury
- Accountable authority
- Inspector-General – Bankruptcy Act 1966 section 13(c)
- ABN
- 63 384 330 717
Lineage
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Sources
Primary sources
- List of Commonwealth entities and companies under the PGPA Act, 1 July 2026 (Department of Finance)
- Australian Government Organisations Register (Department of Finance, data.gov.au) (listed from 11 December 2014 to the latest release (30 June 2026))
- Order to allocate the name Australian Financial Security Authority to the Executive Agency established as the Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia