New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

BUSINESS NAMES REGULATION 2004 - REG 5

5 Register of business names

(1) Information is not to be omitted from the Register merely because the registration of a business name is cancelled or the registered particulars in relation to any business name are amended.

(2) For the purposes of section 20 (2) (c) of the Act, the particulars to be recorded in the Register in relation to a person in whose name a business name is registered include the following:

(a) the date on which the business name was registered in relation to that person,

(b) the date on which the business name ceased to be registered in relation to that person,

(c) in relation to a natural person, that person’s date of birth,

(d) in relation to a corporation under the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth, the corporation’s ACN within the meaning of that Act,

(e) in relation to a person who has an ABN for the business, the ABN.

(3) In addition to the information required by section 20 (2) and (3) of the Act, the following information is to be included in the Register in relation to each registered business name:

(a) the date on which the business name was registered,

(b) the date on which registration of the business name falls due for renewal.

(4) For the purposes of section 20 (5) of the Act, the places at which the Register is to be made available for public inspection are all offices of the Office of Fair Trading to which the general public has access.

(5) In this clause, "ABN" means an Australian Business Number registered under the A New Tax System (Australian Business Number) Act 1999 of the Commonwealth.