AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

BUSINESS NAMES REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 11 of 1966

	Business Names Ordinance 1963 repeals the existing business names legislation in the Australian Capital Territory and substitutes for it provisions based on a model Bill adopted by all States and major Territories.

	The Ordinance, as amended by the Business Names Ordinance 1966 following consultations in the Standing Committee of Attorney-General, requires the various applications, certificates, statements and notice under the Ordinance to be in the prescribed form and requires prescribed fees to be paid to the Registrar in respect of various matters.

	The regulations now made prescribe the necessary forms and fees and set out general requirements for documents lodged with the Registrar.  They follow generally model Business Names Regulations drafted by Victoria for the purposes of the uniform business names legislation as adopted by all States and major Territories.