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  "$schema": "https://govschema.org/spec/v0.3/govschema.schema.json",
  "govschemaVersion": "0.3.0",
  "id": "mu/cbrd/foundation-registration",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "title": "Mauritius Application Form for the Registration of a Foundation",
  "description": "The Corporate and Business Registration Department (CBRD)'s \"Application Form for the Registration of a Foundation\", prescribed under section 23 of the Foundations Act 2012 and distributed directly and unauthenticated from the Department's own downloadable-forms page. Disclosed as an open sibling on this registry's already-published `mu/cbrd/limited-partnership-registration` (Form LP2) and `mu/cbrd/limited-liability-partnership-registration` (Form LLP1) schemas' own VERIFICATION.md records. Full company incorporation itself routes through the login-gated CBRIS online portal with no static/downloadable equivalent, so — as with both siblings — this candidate is scoped to the Department's directly-downloadable Foundation registration form rather than company incorporation proper. This schema does not submit the application itself; the live source and the Department's own current requirements are always authoritative. GovSchema is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Government of Mauritius or its Corporate and Business Registration Department.",
  "status": "draft",
  "jurisdiction": {
    "country": "MU",
    "level": "national"
  },
  "authority": {
    "name": "Corporate and Business Registration Department",
    "abbreviation": "CBRD",
    "url": "https://companies.govmu.org/cbrd/"
  },
  "process": {
    "type": "application",
    "language": "en"
  },
  "source": {
    "url": "https://companies.govmu.org/cbrd/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/APPLICATION-FORM-FOR-THE-REGISTRATION-OF-A-FOUNDATION.pdf",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-07-25",
    "documentRef": "APPLICATION FORM FOR THE REGISTRATION OF A FOUNDATION (Section 23), Foundations Act 2012, Corporate and Business Registration Department, 4 pages, text-layer PDF (no AcroForm annotations)."
  },
  "verification": {
    "method": "manual-source-review-v1",
    "lastVerifiedAt": "2026-07-25",
    "verifiedBy": "GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer)",
    "nextReviewBy": "2027-01-25",
    "notes": "See VERIFICATION.md for the full write-up: source fetch/hash, extraction method (text-layer positional extraction plus a supplementary canvas render used to confirm the ruled-box layout), and a genuine structural finding distinguishing this form from both CBRD siblings — its Founder(s)/Beneficiary/Secretary/Council entry areas are each a single undivided ruled box with no internal row ruling at all (not merely an undivided total as on the LLP1 sibling's capital-contribution box), and the form itself prints no signature/declaration block, since the sworn declaration is instead disclosed as its own separate attached-document requirement."
  },
  "maturity": {
    "level": "structural-reference",
    "criteria": {
      "structuralReference": true,
      "verifiedSchema": false,
      "agentReadySchema": false,
      "executionTestedSchema": false
    },
    "method": "maturity-self-assessment-v1",
    "assertedBy": "GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer)",
    "assertedAt": "2026-07-25"
  },
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "foundation_particulars",
      "title": "Section 23 — Foundation Particulars",
      "fields": [
        "nameOfFoundation",
        "dateOfCharter",
        "amendmentToCharter",
        "purposesAndObjects"
      ],
      "next": "founder_and_beneficiary"
    },
    {
      "id": "founder_and_beneficiary",
      "title": "Articles, Founder(s), and Beneficiary",
      "fields": [
        "dateOfArticles",
        "founderNameAndAddress",
        "founderServiceAddress",
        "beneficiaryDetails"
      ],
      "next": "officers"
    },
    {
      "id": "officers",
      "title": "Secretary and Council",
      "fields": [
        "secretaryNameAndAddress",
        "councilMembersNameAndAddress"
      ],
      "next": "registration_particulars"
    },
    {
      "id": "registration_particulars",
      "title": "Registered Office and Period",
      "fields": [
        "registeredOfficeAddress",
        "periodOfFoundation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "fields": [
    {
      "name": "nameOfFoundation",
      "label": "Name of Foundation",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "Page 1, \"(i) Name of Foundation\""
    },
    {
      "name": "dateOfCharter",
      "label": "Date of Charter",
      "type": "date",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "Page 1, \"(ii)(a) Date of Charter\""
    },
    {
      "name": "amendmentToCharter",
      "label": "Amendment to Charter (If Any)",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "description": "The form's own caption offers an explicit \"(if any)\" qualifier with no accompanying checkbox to gate on, so this field is modelled optional with no requiredWhen condition, matching this registry's own convention for other CBRD \"(if any)\" captions (e.g. the LLP1 sibling's durationYears/conditionsOfExistenceIfIndefinite fields).",
      "sourceRef": "Page 1, \"(ii)(b) Amendment to Charter (if any)\""
    },
    {
      "name": "purposesAndObjects",
      "label": "Purposes and Objects",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "Page 1, \"(iii) Purposes and objects\" (the remainder of page 1 is one large ruled box for this item's own free-text answer)"
    },
    {
      "name": "dateOfArticles",
      "label": "Date of Articles (If Any)",
      "type": "date",
      "required": false,
      "description": "\"(if any)\" qualifier printed with no accompanying checkbox, modelled optional with no requiredWhen condition — same convention as amendmentToCharter.",
      "sourceRef": "Page 2, \"(iv) Date of Articles (if any)\""
    },
    {
      "name": "founderNameAndAddress",
      "label": "Name & Address of Founder(s)",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "At least one founder is a legal precondition of a foundation under the Foundations Act 2012, so this field is modelled required. The form's own caption is plural (\"Founder(s)\") but the printed entry area is a single undivided ruled box with no internal row ruling at all — a genuine structural difference from the LP2/LLP1 siblings, which each print numbered blank lines (one founder/partner per line). Since the source prints no per-founder division to bind separate fields to, this is modelled as one aggregate free-text field covering all founders, rather than fabricating bounded numbered slots the form itself does not carry.",
      "sourceRef": "Page 2, \"(v) Name & address of Founder(s)\" (undivided ruled box, confirmed via canvas render)"
    },
    {
      "name": "founderServiceAddress",
      "label": "Founder(s) — Service Address",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Printed as its own sub-label partway down the same item (v) box, splitting it into an (unruled) founder-particulars area above and a service-address area below — confirmed via canvas render. Modelled as a distinct field from founderNameAndAddress since the source itself labels it separately, even though neither sub-area carries its own printed ruling.",
      "sourceRef": "Page 2, item (v), \"Service address\" sub-label"
    },
    {
      "name": "beneficiaryDetails",
      "label": "Details of Beneficiary",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Printed entry area is a single undivided ruled box, the same structural pattern as founderNameAndAddress — modelled as one aggregate free-text field for the same reason.",
      "sourceRef": "Page 2, \"(vi) Details of Beneficiary\""
    },
    {
      "name": "secretaryNameAndAddress",
      "label": "Name & Address of Secretary",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "A Foundation Secretary is a legal requirement under the Foundations Act 2012 (mirrored by this checklist's own \"Consent of Secretary\" attached-document requirement), so modelled required.",
      "sourceRef": "Page 3, \"(vii) Name & address of Secretary\""
    },
    {
      "name": "councilMembersNameAndAddress",
      "label": "Names & Address of Members of Council",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Printed entry area is a single undivided ruled box spanning the remainder of page 3 into the top of page 4, with no internal row ruling for individual council members — same structural pattern and modelling rationale as founderNameAndAddress.",
      "sourceRef": "Page 3, \"(Viii) Names & address of members of Council\" (undivided box continuing onto page 4)"
    },
    {
      "name": "registeredOfficeAddress",
      "label": "Address of Registered Office",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "Page 4, \"(ix) Address of registered office\""
    },
    {
      "name": "periodOfFoundation",
      "label": "Period of Foundation",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "description": "Modelled as free text, not a fixed-duration number, since the form prints no unit caption (unlike the LLP1 sibling's own \"Duration (if any) [or N/A] ___ Years\" wording) — the Foundations Act 2012 itself permits a Foundation to exist for either a fixed term or in perpetuity, so this box may be completed with a term of years or a word such as \"Unlimited\"/\"Perpetuity\".",
      "sourceRef": "Page 4, \"(x) Period of Foundation\""
    }
  ],
  "documents": [
    {
      "id": "legalCertificate",
      "label": "Legal Certificate",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "sourceRef": "Page 4 checklist, \"(i) Legal Certificate\""
    },
    {
      "id": "applicantDeclaration",
      "label": "Declaration that the information provided in the application is true and correct",
      "category": "attestation",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "statement": "Declaration made by applicant that the information provided in the application is true and correct.",
      "sourceRef": "Page 4 checklist, \"(ii) Declaration made by applicant that the information provided in the application is true and correct\" — this registry's LP2/LLP1 CBRD siblings each print their own signature/declaration block directly on the form; this Foundation form prints no such block on any of its 4 pages, so the sworn declaration is instead required as its own separate attached document"
    },
    {
      "id": "firstOfficersList",
      "label": "List of names & addresses of first officers (if any)",
      "category": "supporting-evidence",
      "required": false,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "sourceRef": "Page 4 checklist, \"(iii) List of names & addresses of first officers (if any)\" — \"(if any)\" qualifier printed with no accompanying checkbox to gate a requiredWhen condition on, modelled not required, same convention as the amendmentToCharter/dateOfArticles fields above"
    },
    {
      "id": "secretaryConsent",
      "label": "Consent of Secretary",
      "category": "attestation",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "other",
      "sourceRef": "Page 4 checklist, \"(iv) Consent of Secretary\""
    },
    {
      "id": "councilMembersConsent",
      "label": "Consent of members of the Council",
      "category": "attestation",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "other",
      "sourceRef": "Page 4 checklist, \"(v) Consent of members of the Council\""
    },
    {
      "id": "registrationFeeReceipt",
      "label": "Proof of payment of the registration fee (Rs9,000) and certificate fee (Rs100)",
      "category": "payment",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "sourceRef": "Page 4 checklist, \"(vi) Please note that the fees payable at the time of registration is Rs9000 + Rs100 (Certificate)\""
    },
    {
      "id": "beneficialOwnerLetter",
      "label": "Letter stating whether Foundation has beneficial owner",
      "category": "attestation",
      "required": true,
      "belongsTo": "applicant",
      "sourceRef": "Page 4 checklist, \"(vii) Letter stating whether Foundation has beneficial owner.\""
    }
  ]
}