New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BUSINESS NAMES ACT 2002 - SECT 5

5 Application to registration of Licensing and Registration (Uniform Procedures) Act 2002

(1) The Director-General may grant registration of a business name in the name of one or more persons.

(2) Part 3 of the Licensing and Registration (Uniform Procedures) Act 2002 ( "the applied Act") applies to and in respect of registration of a business name, subject to the modifications and limitations prescribed by or under this Act.

Note: See clause 3 of Schedule 2, which temporarily suspends the provisions of the applied Act in relation to the making of applications by way of electronic communication.

(3) For the purpose of applying Part 3 of the applied Act to registration of a business name:

(a) the references in sections 35 (1) and 37 (3) of that Act to “18 years” are to be read as references to “16 years”, and

(b) registration may be transferred under that Act, and

(c) applications for restoration of registration under section 39 of that Act must be made within 3 months of the registration expiring.

(4) Registration of a business name is taken to be fixed-term registration for the purposes of Part 3 of the applied Act.

(5) Subject to this section, the regulations may make provision for or with respect to such matters concerning registration of a business name as are relevant to the operation of Part 3 of the applied Act.