Business Names Regulations 1976 (NI)

NORFOLK ISLAND

BUSINESS NAMES REGULATIONS

[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. Citation 2. Definition 3. Forms 4. Directions in forms 5. General requirements for documents lodged with Registrar 6. Fees

Schedule 1 — List of forms Schedule 2 — Forms Schedule 3 — Fees to be paid to the Registrar

NORFOLK ISLAND

Business Names Regulations ____________________________________________________________________

Citation 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Business Names Regulations. Definition 2. In these Regulations, "the Act" means the Business Names Act 1976. Forms 3. Where a provision of the Act is specified in Column 2 of Schedule 1 in an item in that Schedule, the form in Schedule 2 specified in Column 4 of Schedule 1 in that item is the form to be used for the purposes of that provision in relation to the matter or thing described in Column 3 of Schedule 1 in that item. Directions in forms 4. A form prescribed by these Regulations shall be completed in accordance with such directions as are specified in the form as so prescribed. General requirements for documents lodged with Registrar 5. A document to be lodged with the Registrar under the Act or these Regulations shall comply with the following requirements — (a) the document shall be on paper of medium weight and good quality and — (i) in the case of a document on paper of less than foolscap folio size — not less than 210 millimetres deep by 140 millimetres wide; or (ii) in any other case — of foolscap folio size or a multiple of that size; (b) the document shall be printed, typewritten or handwritten, or in part printed, in part typewritten or in part handwritten, and shall be legible; (c) the document shall not be a carbon copy; (d) where the document comprises two or more sheets, the sheets shall be bound together securely; and (e) the document shall be folded lengthwise and, as so folded, shall have endorsed on the outside — (i) on the upper left-hand corner — the registered number (if any) allotted by the Registrar to the business name to which the document relates; (ii) the business name to which the document relates; (iii) the title of the document (being, if the document is a form prescribed by these Regulations, the same as the heading to the form); (iv) the name, address and telephone number of the solicitor or other person by whom, or on whose behalf, the document is lodged; and (v) the following words — "Lodged in the office of the Registrar of Companies on Registrar of Companies.". Fees 6. The fee specified in Column 3 of Schedule 3 in an item in that Schedule shall be paid to the Registrar in respect of the matter specified in Column 2 of that Schedule in that item. ________