Queensland Consolidated Acts

BUSINESS NAMES ACT 1962

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

           Contents
   1.      Short title
   3.      Definitions
   3A.     Meaning of carrying on business within State
   3B.     When business name taken to be registered in relation to person
   3C.     How prescribed fee may be paid
   3D.     How documents may be lodged
   4.      Registrar and other staff
   4B.     Registrar may appoint clerk of the court as agent
   4C.     Delegation by administrator
   5.      Certain business names to be registered
   6.      Register of business names
   7.      Registration of business names
   7A.     Application not made until prescribed fee paid and proof of identity provided
   7B.     Registrar's power to ask applicant for further information
   9.      Restriction on registration of business names that are undesirable etc.
   10.     Power to cancel registration of business names that are undesirable etc.
   10A.    Term of registration
   11.     Renewal of registration
   12.     Notification of changes in particulars relating to registered business names, cessation of business etc.
   12A.    Provisions relating to statements etc.
   13.     Duty to furnish information
   14.     Disability of persons in default
   15.     Signing of statements
   16.     Registrar's powers about statements that are incomplete etc.
   16A.    Verification of information
   17.     False or misleading documents
   18.     Notice of proposed cancellation
   19.     Cancellation of registration
   19A.    Cancellation of registration if proof of applicant's identity was not provided
   19B.    Cancellation for nonpayment of prescribed fee
   19C.    Fees not refundable if registration cancelled
   20.     Use and exhibition of business name
   21.     Registrar may correct errors in register etc.
   22.     Records
   22A.    Obtaining information from register
   22B.    Extract from register
   23.     Certificates of registration or non-registration
   24.     Evidentiary provisions
   24A.    Provision of information
   24B.    Protection from liability
   25.     Authority of registrar to destroy documents
   26.     Invitations to the public to make deposits or loans
   27.     Proceedings—general penalty provisions
   28.     Default penalty
   29.     Offences committed by corporations
   30.     Evidentiary provisions
   31.     As to service of notices and lodging of statements
   31A.    Approval of forms
   32.     Regulation-making power
   35.     References to repealed Acts
           Endnotes