Registry entry

Papua New Guinea Business Name Registration (IPA Form A-17)

The Investment Promotion Authority's (IPA) Form A-17, "Application for registration of business name", filed under section 4(1) of the Business Names Act 2014. Used to register a business name under which an individual, partnership, or entity intends to trade in Papua New Guinea. Models the proposed business name (up to three ranked options); the principal place of business and postal address (Section 2A/2C — the unbounded "additional places of business" Section 2B is out of scope, disclosed below); up to three natural-person owners plus, as separate structural subparts, a PNG-registered-entity owner and a foreign, PNG-unregistered-entity owner (Section 3A/3B/3C); the primary business activity classification and commencement date (Section 4/5); up to four authorised signers (Section 6); and the lodging person's own particulars (Section 7). The prescribed fee and the form's own certification statement are modelled as documents[]. Out of scope, disclosed rather than silently omitted: Section 2B's unbounded "additional places of business" attachment (the source itself directs the applicant to "attach a separate sheet" with no printed maximum, this registry's established unbounded-attachment exclusion pattern) and Section 8's own prescribed-fee-amount figure (a variable schedule set by IPA regulation, not printed on the form itself). GovSchema is an independent, non-profit standards body; it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Independent State of Papua New Guinea or the Investment Promotion Authority.

Registry entry

pg/ipa/business-name-registration

Jurisdiction
Papua New Guinea · national
Version
1.0.0
Verification
draft
Authority
Investment Promotion Authority

Authoritative source Form A-17, "Application for registration of business name", Section 4(1) of the Business Names Act 2014

Machine access

Schema document
registry/pg/ipa/business-name-registration/1.0.0/schema.jsonapplication/schema+json
Verification record
registry/pg/ipa/business-name-registration/1.0.0/VERIFICATION.mdtext/markdown
Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id

Field reference

125 fields across 8 steps, read from the published schema.json, with names, types, requiredness, and validation as the document states them. The live government form remains the authoritative source.

1. Proposed Business Name

  • preferredBusinessName string required

    The applicant's first-choice proposed business name. Not printed with an explicit asterisk/"(required)" marker of its own, but a proposed name is the necessary starting point of the application (the form's own instructions describe the second and third options as fallbacks used only if this one is unavailable) — modelled required as a standard-practice interpretation, not a directly quoted requirement.

  • secondOptionBusinessName string optional

    Used only if the preferred name is unavailable; if also unavailable, the third option is used instead.

  • thirdOptionBusinessName string optional

    Third-Option Business Name

2. Addresses

  • principalAddressLine1 string required

    Street name and number, or allotment and section number. A PO Box is not accepted here, and a village address is not allowed for the principal place of business.

  • principalAddressLine2 string optional

    Used if needed, such as for an apartment or suite number.

  • principalCityTown string optional

    Principal Place of Business — City/Town

  • principalDistrict string required

    Principal Place of Business — District

  • principalProvince string required

    Principal Place of Business — Province

  • principalPostcode string optional

    Principal Place of Business — Postcode

  • postalAddressLine1 string required

    The postal address to which communications from the Registrar may be sent.

  • postOfficeLocation string optional

    Postal Address — Post Office Location

  • postalCityTown string optional

    Postal Address — City/Town

  • postalDistrict string required

    Postal Address — District

  • postalProvince string required

    Postal Address — Province

  • postalPostcode string optional

    Postal Address — Postcode

  • postalEmailAddress string required

    The address to which communications from the Registrar will be sent; an email is required to use the IPA's on-line filing service.

    classification: pii

3A. Owners — Natural Persons

  • owner1FullLegalName string optional

    Every owner-related field in this Section 3A block is modelled bare-optional, even though several are printed "(required)" on the source: ownership of the business name may instead sit entirely with a registered entity (Section 3B) or an unregistered foreign entity (Section 3C), so no natural-person owner slot can be assumed universally mandatory. This mirrors this registry's own established precedent for a conditionally-applicable, unprinted-signal section (see e.g. al/dpt/individual-annual-income-declaration boxes 15/16) rather than inventing an unprinted eligibility gate.

  • owner1Nationality string optional

    First Owner — Nationality

  • owner1OtherNationalities string optional

    First Owner — Other Nationalities

  • owner1Gender enum optional

    First Owner — Gender

    enum: Male | Female
  • owner1MonthYearOfBirth string optional

    Month and year only, MM/YYYY — the source prints no day-of-birth box for this field.

    pattern
  • owner1Email string optional

    Not mandatory on the source, but required to use IPA's online registry.

    classification: pii
  • owner1ForeignCertificationNumber string optional

    Applicable only if this owner is not a PNG citizen: a foreign investor certification number is required to be an owner of a business name.

  • owner1ResidentialAddressLine1 string optional

    Street name and number, or allotment and section number, or village name. A PO Box is not allowed.

  • owner1ResidentialAddressLine2 string optional

    First Owner — Residential Address Line 2

  • owner1ResidentialCityTownVillage string optional

    First Owner — Residential City/Town/Village

  • owner1ResidentialDistrict string optional

    Required if the residential address is in PNG.

  • owner1ResidentialProvince string optional

    Province required if the residential address is in PNG.

  • owner1ResidentialCountry string optional

    First Owner — Residential Country

  • owner1ResidentialPostcode string optional

    First Owner — Residential Post Code

  • owner1PostalAddressLine1 string optional

    Required if in PNG.

  • owner1PostalPostOfficeLocation string optional

    First Owner — Postal Address — Post Office Location

  • owner1PostalCityTown string optional

    First Owner — Postal Address — City/Town

  • owner1PostalDistrict string optional

    First Owner — Postal Address — District

  • owner1PostalProvince string optional

    First Owner — Postal Address — Province

  • owner1PostalCountry string optional

    First Owner — Postal Address — Country

  • owner1PostalPostcode string optional

    First Owner — Postal Address — Post Code

  • owner2FullLegalName string optional

    Every owner-related field in this Section 3A block is modelled bare-optional, even though several are printed "(required)" on the source: ownership of the business name may instead sit entirely with a registered entity (Section 3B) or an unregistered foreign entity (Section 3C), so no natural-person owner slot can be assumed universally mandatory. This mirrors this registry's own established precedent for a conditionally-applicable, unprinted-signal section (see e.g. al/dpt/individual-annual-income-declaration boxes 15/16) rather than inventing an unprinted eligibility gate.

  • owner2Nationality string optional

    Second Owner — Nationality

  • owner2OtherNationalities string optional

    Second Owner — Other Nationalities

  • owner2Gender enum optional

    Second Owner — Gender

    enum: Male | Female
  • owner2MonthYearOfBirth string optional

    Month and year only, MM/YYYY — the source prints no day-of-birth box for this field.

    pattern
  • owner2Email string optional

    Not mandatory on the source, but required to use IPA's online registry.

    classification: pii
  • owner2ForeignCertificationNumber string optional

    Applicable only if this owner is not a PNG citizen: a foreign investor certification number is required to be an owner of a business name.

  • owner2ResidentialAddressLine1 string optional

    Street name and number, or allotment and section number, or village name. A PO Box is not allowed.

  • owner2ResidentialAddressLine2 string optional

    Second Owner — Residential Address Line 2

  • owner2ResidentialCityTownVillage string optional

    Second Owner — Residential City/Town/Village

  • owner2ResidentialDistrict string optional

    Required if the residential address is in PNG.

  • owner2ResidentialProvince string optional

    Province required if the residential address is in PNG.

  • owner2ResidentialCountry string optional

    Second Owner — Residential Country

  • owner2ResidentialPostcode string optional

    Second Owner — Residential Post Code

  • owner2PostalAddressLine1 string optional

    Required if in PNG.

  • owner2PostalPostOfficeLocation string optional

    Second Owner — Postal Address — Post Office Location

  • owner2PostalCityTown string optional

    Second Owner — Postal Address — City/Town

  • owner2PostalDistrict string optional

    Second Owner — Postal Address — District

  • owner2PostalProvince string optional

    Second Owner — Postal Address — Province

  • owner2PostalCountry string optional

    Second Owner — Postal Address — Country

  • owner2PostalPostcode string optional

    Second Owner — Postal Address — Post Code

  • owner3FullLegalName string optional

    Every owner-related field in this Section 3A block is modelled bare-optional, even though several are printed "(required)" on the source: ownership of the business name may instead sit entirely with a registered entity (Section 3B) or an unregistered foreign entity (Section 3C), so no natural-person owner slot can be assumed universally mandatory. This mirrors this registry's own established precedent for a conditionally-applicable, unprinted-signal section (see e.g. al/dpt/individual-annual-income-declaration boxes 15/16) rather than inventing an unprinted eligibility gate.

  • owner3Nationality string optional

    Third Owner — Nationality

  • owner3OtherNationalities string optional

    Third Owner — Other Nationalities

  • owner3Gender enum optional

    Third Owner — Gender

    enum: Male | Female
  • owner3MonthYearOfBirth string optional

    Month and year only, MM/YYYY — the source prints no day-of-birth box for this field.

    pattern
  • owner3Email string optional

    Not mandatory on the source, but required to use IPA's online registry.

    classification: pii
  • owner3ForeignCertificationNumber string optional

    Applicable only if this owner is not a PNG citizen: a foreign investor certification number is required to be an owner of a business name.

  • owner3ResidentialAddressLine1 string optional

    Street name and number, or allotment and section number, or village name. A PO Box is not allowed.

  • owner3ResidentialAddressLine2 string optional

    Third Owner — Residential Address Line 2

  • owner3ResidentialCityTownVillage string optional

    Third Owner — Residential City/Town/Village

  • owner3ResidentialDistrict string optional

    Required if the residential address is in PNG.

  • owner3ResidentialProvince string optional

    Province required if the residential address is in PNG.

  • owner3ResidentialCountry string optional

    Third Owner — Residential Country

  • owner3ResidentialPostcode string optional

    Third Owner — Residential Post Code

  • owner3PostalAddressLine1 string optional

    Required if in PNG.

  • owner3PostalPostOfficeLocation string optional

    Third Owner — Postal Address — Post Office Location

  • owner3PostalCityTown string optional

    Third Owner — Postal Address — City/Town

  • owner3PostalDistrict string optional

    Third Owner — Postal Address — District

  • owner3PostalProvince string optional

    Third Owner — Postal Address — Province

  • owner3PostalCountry string optional

    Third Owner — Postal Address — Country

  • owner3PostalPostcode string optional

    Third Owner — Postal Address — Post Code

3B. Owners — Entities Registered in Papua New Guinea

  • registeredEntityOwnerRegistrationNumber string optional

    Applicable only when at least one owner of the business name is an entity already registered in Papua New Guinea under another law (e.g. the Companies Act). All fields in this block are bare-optional: they apply only if this ownership category is used, which the source signals structurally (a separate lettered subpart) rather than with a printed checkbox this schema could gate on.

  • registeredEntityOwnerName string optional

    Registered Entity Owner — Entity Name

  • registeredEntityOwnerType string optional

    Modelled as free string: the source prints only a blank "Entity Type" label with no enumerated options.

  • registeredEntityOwnerEmail string optional

    Registered Entity Owner — Email

    classification: pii
  • registeredEntityOwnerPostalAddressLine1 string optional

    Required if in PNG.

  • registeredEntityOwnerPostOfficeLocation string optional

    Registered Entity Owner — Postal Address — Post Office Location

  • registeredEntityOwnerCityTown string optional

    Registered Entity Owner — Postal Address — City/Town

  • registeredEntityOwnerDistrict string optional

    Registered Entity Owner — Postal Address — District

  • registeredEntityOwnerProvince string optional

    Registered Entity Owner — Postal Address — Province

  • registeredEntityOwnerCountry string optional

    Registered Entity Owner — Postal Address — Country

  • registeredEntityOwnerPostcode string optional

    Registered Entity Owner — Postal Address — Post Code

3C. Owners — Entities Not Registered in a Papua New Guinea Government Registry

  • foreignEntityOwnerFullLegalName string optional

    Applicable only when at least one owner of the business name is an entity that is not registered in any Papua New Guinea government registry. Printed "(required)" on the source, but modelled bare-optional here for the same structural reason as the Section 3B block above — this ownership category may or may not apply to a given application.

  • foreignEntityOwnerType string optional

    Modelled as free string: the source prints only a blank "Entity Type (optional)" label with no enumerated options.

  • foreignEntityOwnerEmail string optional

    Foreign Entity Owner — Email

    classification: pii
  • foreignEntityOwnerContactPersonName string optional

    Foreign Entity Owner — Name of Contact Person

    classification: pii
  • foreignEntityOwnerForeignCertificationNumber string optional

    A foreign investor certification number, required to be an owner of a business name when the owner is not a PNG citizen/entity.

  • foreignEntityOwnerEntityNumber string optional

    Foreign Entity Owner — Entity Number

  • foreignEntityOwnerPostalAddressLine1 string optional

    Required if in PNG.

  • foreignEntityOwnerPostOfficeLocation string optional

    Foreign Entity Owner — Postal Address — Post Office Location

  • foreignEntityOwnerCityTown string optional

    Foreign Entity Owner — Postal Address — City/Town

  • foreignEntityOwnerDistrict string optional

    Foreign Entity Owner — Postal Address — District

  • foreignEntityOwnerProvince string optional

    Foreign Entity Owner — Postal Address — Province

  • foreignEntityOwnerCountry string optional

    Foreign Entity Owner — Postal Address — Country

  • foreignEntityOwnerPostcode string optional

    Foreign Entity Owner — Postal Address — Post Code

4-5. Business Activity and Commencement Date

  • primaryBusinessActivity enum required

    The primary type of business to be conducted under this business name. The source instructs "tick only one box" against a printed 17-category classification (International Standard Industrial Classification-style sections).

    enum: 17 values
  • commencementDate date required

    The commencement date may not be more than three months after the date of registration — a business rule stated on the source relative to the (not-yet-known-at-submission-time) registration date, disclosed here rather than encoded as a crossFieldValidation rule, since this schema has no separate registration-date field for it to reference.

6. Signed by Authorised Person(s)

  • signer1PrintedName string required

    First Authorised Signer — Printed Name

    classification: pii
  • signer1Signature string required

    Printed as a single "Signature: ______" line.

    classification: pii
  • signer1Designation enum required

    First Authorised Signer — Designation

    enum: Owner | Authorised person
  • signer1Date date required

    First Authorised Signer — Date

  • signer2PrintedName string optional

    Second Authorised Signer — Printed Name

    classification: pii
  • signer2Signature string optional

    Printed as a single "Signature: ______" line.

    classification: pii
  • signer2Designation enum optional

    Second Authorised Signer — Designation

    enum: Owner | Authorised person
  • signer2Date date optional

    Second Authorised Signer — Date

  • signer3PrintedName string optional

    Third Authorised Signer — Printed Name

    classification: pii
  • signer3Signature string optional

    Printed as a single "Signature: ______" line.

    classification: pii
  • signer3Designation enum optional

    Third Authorised Signer — Designation

    enum: Owner | Authorised person
  • signer3Date date optional

    Third Authorised Signer — Date

  • signer4PrintedName string optional

    Fourth Authorised Signer — Printed Name

    classification: pii
  • signer4Signature string optional

    Printed as a single "Signature: ______" line.

    classification: pii
  • signer4Designation enum optional

    Fourth Authorised Signer — Designation

    enum: Owner | Authorised person
  • signer4Date date optional

    Fourth Authorised Signer — Date

7. Lodged By

  • lodgedByName string required

    Confirmed via x/y-position re-extraction of the source's own final page: the raw text stream interleaves "8. Checklist" between the "7. Lodged by" section header and its own two-column answer fields (Name/Address on the left, "Other contact details" — Telephone/Email — on the right), since Section 8 itself is a checklist item with no further data fields of its own.

    classification: pii
  • lodgedByAddress string required

    Lodged By — Address

  • lodgedByEmail string optional

    Lodged By — Email

    classification: pii
  • lodgedByPhone string required

    Lodged By — Telephone

    classification: pii

Verification record

Candidate selection

GOV-5791 ("GovSchema Standard Research"). Re-scanned CATALOG.md fresh first: Pakistan's FBR "Manual Return" workbook backlog (Annexes A-F) had been closed outright by the immediately preceding GOV-5782 cycle, and the standing 16-jurisdiction "5 of 6 verticals" re-screen list (AE, BA, BR, CZ, GR, ID, JM, MK, MN, MT, NO, PL, RW, SK, TN, TT) had already been reconfirmed a dead end across 8 consecutive prior cycles (GOV-5731 through GOV-5782). Rather than re-screen that same list a 9th time, this cycle scouted genuinely new jurisdictions, delegating three parallel scouting passes across 18 countries entirely absent from the 100-jurisdiction registry: Angola, Mozambique, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Malawi (Sub-Saharan Africa); Suriname, Guyana, Belize, Nicaragua, Honduras, Cuba (Latin America/Caribbean); Montenegro, Kosovo, Bahrain, Kuwait, Papua New Guinea, Fiji (Balkans/Middle East/Pacific) — each pass required an actual WebFetch/curl confirmation (HTTP status, byte size, real field content, not a login-gated info page), not a memory-based guess.

Several reachable, unauthenticated candidates came back: a DR Congo passport AcroForm (34 named fields, embassy-mirror hosted), a Belize ePassport application (immigration.gov.bz, actively versioned), a Suriname income-tax return, and — the richest field-wise of every candidate found — Kosovo's ARBK Form A0 (LLC registration, arbk.rks-gov.net, HTTP 200, 2,731,296 bytes). Kosovo was not authored: a prior cycle (GOV-4713, 2026-07-24) had already scouted this exact same form and flagged it as a governance question, not a build one — Kosovo has no ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (contested statehood, not an ISO member), and this registry's own jurisdiction.country field (spec/v0.3/govschema.schema.json) requires one. Adopting a non-ISO code (e.g. the widely-used but non-ISO "XK") would set a precedent for how this registry handles non-ISO-recognized territories generally, a call for the Founding Engineer/CEO to make, not this cycle to decide unilaterally. That standing flag is re-confirmed, not overturned, here.

Papua New Guinea's IPA Form A-17 ("Application for registration of business name") was the strongest genuinely-buildable candidate found this cycle: hosted directly on the Investment Promotion Authority's own official domain (ipa.gov.pg), no login/CAPTCHA/WAF gate, an uncontested ISO code (PG), and the richest field set of any candidate found this cycle (11 pages) — richer than PNG's own sibling Form A-2 (overseas company registration, 4 pages) found in the same scouting pass. This opens Papua New Guinea as the registry's 101st jurisdiction via Business Formation.

Reaching the live source

Independently re-fetched https://www.ipa.gov.pg/documentation/pg/form-a-17.pdf directly via plain curl:

  • HTTP 200, 911,150 bytes — byte-identical to this cycle's own scouting pass.
  • sha256 c3c3147e3bf2ab87c780caa81946b0928f2fb936716f61e1213026bf94270f00.
  • No login, CAPTCHA, or WAF/JS-challenge gate blocks reaching or reading this file.
  • Confirmed a genuine native (searchable-text) PDF, not a scanned image: a clean pdfjs-dist text-layer extraction across all 11 pages recovered every printed label with no glyph-mapping or OCR workaround needed.

The form itself cites its own statutory basis directly in its header ("Section 4(1), Business Names Act 2014"), corroborating both its currency and its status as the Investment Promotion Authority's own official implementing form for that Act.

Extraction method

Extracted with pdfjs-dist (vendored install at /tmp/node_modules, CommonJS build at legacy/build/pdf.js), reading each page's flattened getTextContent() output first for a full-document pass, then re-extracting pages 10-11 with each text item's own transform x/y position to resolve a genuine layout ambiguity on the form's final page: the raw text stream interleaves "8. Checklist" between the "7. Lodged by" section header and its own two-column answer block. Position-based re-extraction showed: at y≈491, "7. Lodged by" (left column header, x≈93.6); at y≈479.9, "Other contact details:" (a right-column sub-header, x≈351.8); at y≈475.6, "Name:" (left column); at y≈465.0/y≈406.7, "Telephone:"/"Address:" (right and left columns respectively); at y≈410.2, "Email (optional):" (right column) — all positioned above "8. Checklist" (y≈328.2) and its own single data-free line ("The prescribed fee must accompany this form.", y≈299.8). This confirms Name/Address (left column) and "Other contact details" — Telephone/Email (right column) — are genuinely Section 7's own two-column answer fields, not Section 8's; Section 8 itself carries no applicant-supplied data field of its own, only the prescribed-fee checklist item modelled as a documents[] entry.

Structure and scoping decisions

Models 125 fields[] across 8 steps (Proposed Business Name; Addresses; Owners — Natural Persons [bounded 3 slots]; Owners — Registered PNG Entity [single block]; Owners — Foreign Unregistered Entity [single block]; Business Activity and Commencement Date; Signed by Authorised Person(s) [bounded 4 slots]; Lodged By) plus 2 documents[] (the prescribed fee, category: payment; and the form's own verbatim certification statement, category: attestation). Disclosed scoping decisions:

  1. Section 2B's own unbounded "additional places of business" instruction is excluded. The source directs the applicant to "attach a separate sheet containing the information set out in the prescribed format" with no printed maximum — this registry's established unbounded-attachment exclusion pattern (the same reasoning already applied to, e.g., this same form's own Section 3's "First/Second/Third owner" cap being modelled directly instead, since that section does print a bounded slot count).
  2. Every owner-block field across Sections 3A/3B/3C is modelled bare-optional, even though several are printed "(required)" on the source (e.g. "Full legal name (required)" in both 3A and 3C). Ownership of the business name may sit entirely with any one of the form's three mutually-exclusive owner-type subparts — natural person (3A), a PNG- registered entity (3B), or a foreign, PNG-unregistered entity (3C) — with no printed either/or checkbox this schema could safely gate a requiredWhen condition on. Inventing an unprinted eligibility signal (or gating on notEquals "" against another optional field) is exactly this registry's own standing anti-pattern (see notequals-empty-string-absent-field-bug); every owner field is instead left bare-optional, consistent with this registry's existing precedent for a conditionally-applicable, unprinted-signal section (e.g. al/dpt/individual-annual-income-declaration boxes 15/16).
  3. Section 3A's own printed "First/Second/Third owner" 3-slot capacity is modelled directly, with no invented numberOfOwners count field — mirroring this same form's own Section 1 "Preferred/Second-option/ Third-option business name" pattern, which likewise prints exactly three bounded slots with no accompanying count field.
  4. Gender is a genuine two-option enum (Male/Female), confirmed via the printed checkbox pair on the source ("Gender ... Male Female") — unlike some sibling registry forms (e.g. zm/pacra/company-incorporation's own Gender field) where the equivalent field prints no options at all and is modelled as a free string instead.
  5. commencementDate's own printed "may not be more than three months after the date of registration" business rule is disclosed in its description, not encoded as crossFieldValidation. This schema has no separate registration-date field for it to compare against (the registration date is not known at the time this form is completed).
  6. **Section 6's own 4 authorised-signer slots are modelled as a bounded 4-slot block, with only the first slot's fields (signer1*) statically required**, mirroring the Section 3A owner-slot convention (first slot assumed necessary — a business name application needs at least one signatory — later slots bare-optional).
  7. Entity Type, in both Section 3B and Section 3C, is modelled as a free string, not enum. The source prints only a blank "Entity Type" label in both places, with no enumerated options anywhere on the form — unlike, e.g., zm/pacra/company-incorporation's "Identity Type" field, which does print its own enumerated vocabulary in accompanying instructional text.
  8. primaryBusinessActivity's 17-value enum is transcribed verbatim from the source's own Section 4 checkbox list, an International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC)-style set of sections (Agriculture through Extra-territorial organization and bodies), confirmed against the plain-text extraction pass with no ambiguity in option boundaries.

Conformance

3 valid mock scenarios — valid-minimal-sole-natural-person-owner (a single natural-person owner, no second/third owner or signer, no registered/foreign entity blocks); valid-full-two-owners-two-signers (a fully-populated natural-person-owner scenario exercising every optional Section 1/2/3A field, a second owner, and a second authorised signer); and valid-registered-entity-owner (Section 3B's registered-PNG-entity owner used in place of any Section 3A natural-person owner, with the sole authorised signer designated "Authorised person" rather than "Owner") — plus 8 mutation-control fixtures (6 missing-required fixtures, one per step carrying a statically required field: preferredBusinessName, principalAddressLine1, postalEmailAddress, primaryBusinessActivity, signer1PrintedName, lodgedByName; an invalid-enum-value fixture against primaryBusinessActivity; and an unknown-field-rejected fixture) — are committed under conformance/pg/ipa/business-name-registration/1.0.0/.

An ephemeral, from-scratch conformance checker (deriving required rules directly from this schema's own fields[], discarded after use, not committed) ran all 11 fixtures: all 3 valid scenarios at 0 errors, all 8 mutation controls each raising exactly 1 error (6 missing-required, 1 invalid-enum, 1 unknown-field). Validated clean with node tools/validate.mjs and node tools/validate-ajv.mjs, individually and as part of the full registry run.

Outcome

Opens Papua New Guinea as the registry's 101st jurisdiction, via Business Formation (1 of 6). DMV, Visa, Passport, Taxes, and National ID are open, unscreened backlog for a future cycle — this cycle's own scouting pass did not screen PNG's other five verticals beyond this Business Formation candidate. Kosovo's ARBK Form A0 remains disclosed, ready-to-author backlog pending the Founding Engineer/CEO's own governance decision on non-ISO country codes.

View the raw record (VERIFICATION.md)

Version history

  • 1.0.0 draft latest this page has verification record schema.json

Independent and non-affiliated

GovSchema is an independent, open-source project. This reference is not produced, reviewed, or endorsed by Investment Promotion Authority or any government. The authoritative source is always the live government form and its official instructions.