New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BUSINESS NAMES ACT 2002 - SECT 21

21 Minister may prohibit registration of certain business names

(1) The Minister, by order published in the Gazette:

(a) on his or her own initiative, or

(b) as a consequence of receiving notice of the kind referred to in subsection (2) pursuant to a corresponding law,

may prohibit the registration as a business name of any name or class of names specified in the order.

(2) On making an order as referred to in subsection (1) (a), the Minister must cause notice of the order to be given to each Minister administering a corresponding law.

(3) In this section, "corresponding law" means a law declared by the regulations to be a corresponding law for the purposes of this section.

Note: For orders under this section see Gazette No 45 of 15.4.2005, p 1423.