Society/Union

The Registrar of Friendly Societies is responsible for the assessment and registration of applications and any subsequent amendment of rules which societies are obliged to render to the Registrar, and to ensure that registered societies meet their statutory obligations with regard to filing returns, which once registered are made available for inspection by the public. In this regard the following three classes of body come under the remit of the Registrar of Friendly Societies:

The Registry of Friendly Societies is based in Parnell House, 14 Parnell Square, Dublin 1 and shares the Location with the Companies Registration Office. The Registry is open between 10.00am and 1pm and from 2.15pm to 4.30pm.

Phone: 01-804 5499 , 1890 220 225*           Fax: 01-804 5498

View Annual Reports RFS 2004-2010. The Register of Friendly Societies, Trade Unions and Industrial and Provident Societies is not available online and cannot be searched using the CRO website.

Search for Society/Union Details

View RFS Search FacilityLinks to external website.

It is now possible to search online (by name) for a particular society or trade union. You are able to see a list of documents that have been filed against the society/union. Once you click on a particular society or union, you will see its number, address, entity type (whether friendly or industrial & provident society or a trade union), the date of registration, the last date of an annual return submitted to the RFS and the date of the last triennial return filed (where required).  Should you click on View Submissions you will see listed the various submissions filed and whether they are processed and/or scanned. However, at present, it is not possible to purchase online an image of a document. We hope to add this functionality in the future.

View Fees

Link to the principal Forms in use for:

*Please note that the use of 1890 (Lo Call) numbers may vary among different service providers. 

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