Draft:Authoritative legal entity identifier

An entity is a legal entity when it is subject to the legal authority of the jurisdiction of a government giving it the right to enter into a legal contract and as a result is recognizable in a court of law. An authoritative legal entity identifier (ALEI)[1] is an authoritative identifier[2] issued by an organization that is a legal authority. Ergo an authoritative legal entity identifier (ALEI) is the identifier issued by a government when a legal entity is recognized by the government. For a company this is the business registration number issued when it is registered in a jurisdiction. This information is managed within business/corporate/commercial registers by registrars (also known as Administrators) of a given jurisdiction. For individuals this is the birth registration number issued when a birth is registered in a jurisdiction (a birth certificate is an extract from a government registry). For organizations or agencies of government that are formed by government act or decree, the authoritative legal entity identifier (ALEI) is the government reference. The International Business Registration Number (IBRN) adds a prefix that identifies the government jurisdiction that created the legal entity.

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  1. ^ International Organization for Standardization (2022) ISO 8000-2:2022(en) Data quality Part 2: Vocabulary paragraph 3.3.7. Geneva: ISO.
  2. ^ International Organization for Standardization (2022) ISO 8000-2:2022(en) Data quality Part 2: Vocabulary paragraph 3.3.6. Geneva: ISO.