Notice from the Registrar (REQ): regularize before striking off

What to do if… · revised 2026-10-30

The Quebec Enterprise Registrar writes to you: update declarations are missing, or required information has not been provided. This notice is not decorative - it is the step before striking off - but it is also exactly the moment when everything can still be settled simply.

What the notice means

Every registered enterprise must file an update declaration each year - confirming that the information in the register is accurate, or declaring the changes (P-44.1, s. 45). After two consecutive years of default, the registrar may strike the registration off on its own initiative - and must notify you beforehand (ss. 73 and 59). For a legal person constituted in Quebec, striking off entails dissolution (s. 59). The notice you are holding is therefore the moment to act: an enterprise that has been notified can still regularize.

The law gives you 60 days to remedy the default, from the registrar’s request (s. 73). That request states that penal proceedings may be brought and, where applicable, that the registration may be struck off if you do not comply. A copy is filed in the register: you can therefore find it and check its date.

Regularizing, in order

• File the missed declarations - every year in default, not only the last one, within 60 days of the notice: the official procedure on Québec.ca (in French).
• Pay the accumulated fees and penalties - the amounts are indexed every year: the Registrar’s official fee schedule (in French) is authoritative.
• Check the transparency information - ultimate beneficiaries (in force since March 31, 2023) are among the information whose absence can lead to striking off.
• Correct the address in the register if it has changed - the registrar’s notices go to the address on file; an outdated address is the next notice nobody will read.

What not to do

• Ignore the notice - striking off follows, and for a Quebec company it entails dissolution: accounts, contracts and legal proceedings all bear the consequences.
• Regularize halfway - one declaration when two are missing leaves the default running.

If the striking off has already happened

Revoking a striking off is possible (s. 63): it requires all the missed declarations and the accumulated fees and penalties. For a dissolved legal person, the path is legal - get help (a lawyer or an accountant) rather than navigating alone.