Court orders winding up of NSW builder Bell Building Projects

NSW builder Bell Building Projects Pty Limited (ACN 163 658 080) was placed into court liquidation, with an ASIC notice published on 27 October recording an appointment date of 26 October. The notice is lodged under subsection 465A(2) of the Corporations Act 2001 together with Regulation 5.4.01B, the combined provision for a winding up order made at the same time as the appointment of a liquidator or provisional liquidator.

It follows the same combined order-and-appointment pattern as another trade contractor’s court liquidation reported this week. Unlike that notice, this one does not name the liquidator, the court that made the order, the applicant creditor, or any amount owed. It also does not name a project, site or any buyer, subcontractor or trade tied to the company’s work. Those gaps are reported here rather than filled, consistent with what the published record actually states.

Why it matters

A 465A(2) notice is a narrower category than a standalone winding-up application. Where an application notice precedes a hearing and leaves the outcome open, a combined order-and-appointment notice means the court has already acted: the winding up and the liquidator’s appointment happened at the same step, with no separate application notice preceding it on ASIC’s register for this company.

For anyone with an open contract, invoice or retention tied to Bell Building Projects, the practical change is the same regardless of who the liquidator turns out to be: any claim now runs through the liquidation process rather than through the company’s own directors. Head contractors, subcontractors and suppliers holding unpaid claims against the company should expect the liquidator, once identified through ASIC’s fuller register or a creditors’ notice, to be the point of contact.

Nothing on this notice indicates who sought the order, which means it is not possible to say from the record alone whether the application came from a secured creditor, a trade creditor, a statutory body, or the company itself.

The numbers

The appointment date on the notice is 26 October 2026. The notice was published a day later, on 27 October. The ACN, 163 658 080, is the only identifying number the notice carries; no debt figure, creditor count or asset value appears anywhere in the published text.

The provision cited, Subsection 465A(2) with Regulation 5.4.01B, places the company’s ASIC status as “In Liquidation” as of the appointment date. No earlier related notice, such as a standalone application for a winding-up order, appears against this ACN on the register consulted for this story.

What’s next

A court-appointed liquidator takes control of a wound-up company’s property, investigates its affairs and reports to ASIC before realising assets and distributing them to creditors in the statutory order of priority. None of those later steps appears on the record yet; the published notice covers only the order and the appointment.

Creditors, including any subcontractor or supplier owed money by Bell Building Projects, would ordinarily be contacted directly by the liquidator through a formal proof-of-debt process rather than through a further ASIC notice at this early stage. The liquidator’s identity and first report to creditors, whenever either becomes public, are the next documents likely to show what the company owes, to whom, and whether any current building work is affected.