New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CONVEYANCERS LICENSING ACT 2003 - SECT 19

19 Business names

(1) A licensee must not conduct a conveyancing business under a business name that is not approved by the Director-General.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2) The Director-General is not to approve a proposed business name for a conveyancing business if the name is so similar to that of another business name under which another conveyancing business is conducted as to suggest that there is a relationship between the two businesses.

(3) A licensee must not enter into any arrangement under which some other person, whether or not a licensee, is authorised by the licensee to conduct a conveyancing business under the same business name, or under a substantially similar business name, as that under which the licensee conducts a conveyancing business.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(4) The provisions of this section are intended to operate as referred to in sections 12 (2) (e), 19 (5) and 20 (3) of the Business Names Registration Act 2011 of the Commonwealth.

Note: Section 12 (2) (e) of the Business Names Registration Act 2011 of the Commonwealth (the "Commonwealth Act") provides that the business names legislation referred to in that section is not intended to exclude or limit the concurrent operation of a law of a State that imposes obligations on an entity or class of entities that are in addition to obligations imposed under that Act.
Sections 19 (5) and 20 (3) of the Commonwealth Act also provide that an entity does not commit an offence under those sections concerning the inclusion or display of registered business names in written communications and at places of business if the inclusion, use or display of a business name in such a communication or at such a place would be contrary to a law of a State.