Act 7
Registration of Business Names Act
2008
13. Time for Registration.
(1) The particulars required to be furnished under this Act,
shall be furnished within twenty eight days after the
individual, firm or corporation commences business or
commences to use the business name, as the case may be.
(2) Where an individual, firm or corporation changes the name
of the business as a consequence of the death or retirement
of one of the partners of a firm or of any person having
changed his or her name or of any other reason, any firm or
individual, not until then required to be registered under
this Act, is required thereafter to be registered.
(3) For the purposes of registration in pursuance of subsection
(2) above, the statement of particulars shall be sent by
registered post or delivered to the Registrar within twenty
eight days after such happening.
14. Registration of Changes.
(1) Subject to provisions of section 22(2) herein, whenever a
change is made or occurs in any of the following particulars—
(a) the business name;
(b) the physical address of the principal or any other place
of business;
(c) the nature of the business; or
(d) the names of the partners,
in respect of any individual, firm or corporation, such
individual, firm or corporation shall, within twenty-eight
days after such change, send by registered post or deliver to
the Registrar a notice in writing in the prescribed form
specifying the nature and date of the change signed, and
where necessary verified, in like manner as a statement of
particulars.
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