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REGISTRATION OF BUSINESS NAMES ACT 1916 - SECT 1



1. Subject to the provisions of this Act

(a)Every firm having a place of business in the United Kingdom and carrying on
business under a business name which does not consist of the true surnames of
all partners who are individuals and the corporate names of all partners who
are corporations without any addition other than the true Christian names of
individual partners or initials of such Christian names;

(b)Every individual having a place of business in the United Kingdom and
carrying on business under a business name which does not consist of his true
surname without any addition other than his true Christian names or the
initials thereof;

(c)Every individual or firm having a place of business in the United Kingdom,
who, or a member of which, has either before or after the passing of this Act
changed his name, except in the case of a woman in consequence of marriage;

[(d)Every company as defined in the Companies Act (Northern Ireland), 1960,
carrying on business under a business name which does not consist of its
corporate name without any addition;]

[(e)every corporation incorporated outside Northern Ireland having a place of
business in Northern Ireland and carrying on business under a business name
which does not consist of its corporate name without any addition;]

Provided that

(i)where the addition merely indicates that the business is carried on in
succession to a former owner of the business, that addition shall not of
itself render registration necessary; and

(ii)where two or more individual partners have the same surname, the addition
of an s at the end of that surname shall not of itself render registration
necessary; and

(iii)where the business is carried on by a trustee in bankruptcy or a receiver
or manager appointed by any court, registration shall not be necessary; and

(iv)a purchase or acquisition of property by two or more persons as joint
tenants or tenants in common is not of itself to be deemed carrying on a
business whether or not the owners share any profits arising from the sale
thereof.


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