Where the Registered Agent Is a Statutory Institution — and Where It Is Not
The notion of a “registered agent” does not work the same way everywhere, and understanding that difference saves a client both money and legal risk. In some jurisdictions the agent is a legally defined, mandatory link between the company and the state: in Seychelles, for instance, an international business company is incorporated through a registered agent licensed by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), and the beneficial-ownership register is kept at the registered office. Here the agent is not a marketing persona but a statutory figure: without it the company cannot exist.
Georgia has no such institution. The Law of Georgia on Entrepreneurs is built on a different model: the registration of an entrepreneur is mandatory and is carried out directly by the registering authority — covering both state and tax registration (Article 8). No intermediary agent is required by law: familiarity with a company or an individual entrepreneur happens through the public registry's data. In practical terms this means that in a Georgian structure the “agent's” function is purely service-based — preparing and filing documentation — while responsibility for the accuracy of the content lies with the organ authorised to create the data, and the registering authority is responsible only for the registration of the submitted data and documents.