Business Names Act 1976 (NI)

NORFOLK ISLAND

BUSINESS NAMES ACT 1976

[Consolidated as at 20 March 2013 on the authority of the Administrator and in accordance with the Enactments Reprinting Act 1980] ________

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title 2. Commencement 3. Transitional provisions 4. Interpretation 5. Certain business names to be registered 6. Register of business names 7. Registration of business names 8. Resident agent 9. Restriction on registration of business names that are undesirable 10. Power to cancel registration of business names that are undesirable, etc 11. Renewal of registration 12. Notification of changes in particulars relating to registered business names, etc 13. Duty to furnish information 14. Disability of persons in default 15. Signing of statements 16. Verification of particulars 17. Penalty for false statement 18. Notice of proposed cancellation 19. Cancellation of registration 20. Use and exhibition of business name 21. Registrar may correct errors in register, etc 22. Inspection of statements 23. Certificates of registration or non-registration 24. Evidence of registration or non-registration 25. Authority of Registrar to destroy documents 26. Invitations to the public to make deposits or loans 27. Proceedings against persons under a business name 28. Default penalty 29. Evidentiary provisions 30. Service of notices

31. Regulations

NORFOLK ISLAND

Business Names Act 1976 _______________________________________________________________________

An Act relating to the use of business names. Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Business Names Act 1976. Commencement 2. (1) Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6, subsection 7(3) and sections 9 and 31 shall come into operation on the day on which notice of the making of this Act is published in the Gazette. (2) The remaining provisions shall come into operation at the expiration of the period of 2 months after the day referred to in subsection 2(1). Transitional provisions 3. (1) Where a firm, individual or corporation was carrying on business in Norfolk Island under a business name immediately before the day on which this section came into operation, the firm, individual or corporation, as the case may be, may, before the expiration of the period of 2 months after that day, apply to the Registrar for registration of that name. (2) An application made under subsection 3(1) — (a) shall be in writing; and (b) shall contain those particulars which would be required if subsection 7(1) were in force. (3) Subject to subsection 3(4) and section 9, where an application is made in accordance with subsections 3(1) and 3(2), the Registrar shall not refuse to register the name. (4) The Registrar may refuse to register a name if he is not satisfied that the particulars contained in the application are correct or that all the required particulars have been supplied. (5) The registration of a business name under this section shall remain in force for a period of 3 years from the date of registration.