AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

BUSINESS NAMES ORDINANCE 1953

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM.

No. 9 of 1953

	The main purpose of the amending Ordinance is to permit the Registrar of Firms to remove from the register the firm-name of a firm or person who ceases to carry on business.  This has been done by inserting sections 10A-10C.

2.	Forms are now prescribed by the Regulations, and so appropriate amendments have been made to sections 8 and 10, and the Schedule repealed.

3.	A new section 17 has been drafted which enables a certificate to be given not only as to the fact of registration but also as to the history of a registration.

4.	The amending Regulations introduce a form of Statement of cessation of business or abandonment of use of firm-name and also a new schedule of fees.