SCHEDULE 1 - Consequential amendments

Section 10

Business Names Act 1962

1.    Section 11 is amended as follows:

(a) by omitting from subsection (1) "Commissioner, at any time within the period of one month before or after the expiry of the registration or within such further time as the Commissioner allows," and substituting "Commissioner" ;

(b) by inserting the following subsections after subsection (1A) :

(1B)  The Commissioner may, by written notice, extend the registration of a business name past the 3-year period specified in subsection (1) if he or she thinks it expedient to do so.

(1C)  A written notice under subsection (1B) is to –

(a) be sent, before the registration of the business name is to expire, to the person or persons in relation to whom the business name is registered; and

(b) specify a new expiry date for the registration.

(c) by omitting from subsection (2) "shall, before or after the expiration of the registration of a business name but not earlier than one month before the expiration thereof," and substituting "is to, before the expiration of the registration of the business name," ;

(d) by omitting from subsection (2) "at the place shown in the register as the place where business is carried on under that name" ;

(e) by omitting from subsection (2) "expire, or has expired, as the case may be." and substituting "expire." ;

(f) by omitting subsections (3) and (4) .