Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

BUSINESS NAMES ACT 1963 (REPEALED) - SECT 10

    (1)     If a business name that could not be registered under this Act without contravention of section 9 (1) is registered through inadvertence or otherwise, the registrar-general may send by post a notice addressed to the person or people in relation to whom the name is so registered at the place shown in the register as the place where business is carried on under the business name—

        (a)     stating that the registrar-general proposes to cancel the registration of the business name at the end of the period (of not less than 28 days) stated in the notice; and

        (b)     setting out the registrar-general's reasons for the proposed cancellation.

    (2)     After the end of that period, the registrar-general may, if the notice has not been annulled under subsection (3), cancel the registration of the business name.

    (3)     The registrar-general must not, except with the Minister's approval, exercise a power under subsection (1) in relation to a business name that was taken to be registered under this Act on its commencement.

    (4)     The Minister may, at any time before the end of the period stated in a notice given by the registrar-general under subsection (1), annul the notice.