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IntroductoryU.K.

1200Application of this ChapterU.K.

(1)This Chapter applies to an individual or partnership carrying on business in the United Kingdom under a business name.

References in this Chapter to “a person to whom this Chapter applies” are to such an individual or partnership.

(2)For the purposes of this Chapter a “business name” means a name other than—

(a)in the case of an individual, his surname without any addition other than a permitted addition;

(b)in the case of a partnership—

(i)the surnames of all partners who are individuals, and

(ii)the corporate names of all partners who are bodies corporate,

without any addition other than a permitted addition.

(3)The following are the permitted additions—

(a)in the case of an individual, his forename or initial;

(b)in the case of a partnership—

(i)the forenames of individual partners or the initials of those forenames, or

(ii)where two or more individual partners have the same surname, the addition of “s” at the end of that surname;

(c)in either case, an addition merely indicating that the business is carried on in succession to a former owner of the business.

[F11201Information required to be disclosedU.K.

(1)The “information required by this Chapter” is—

(a)in the case of an individual, the individual's name;

(b)in the case of a partnership, the name of each member of the partnership;

and, in relation to each person so named, an address at which service of any document relating in any way to the business will be effective.

(2)If the individual or partnership has a place of business in the United Kingdom, the address must be in the United Kingdom.

(3)If the individual or partnership does not have a place of business in the United Kingdom, the address must be an address at which service of documents can be effected by physical delivery and the delivery of documents is capable of being recorded by the obtaining of an acknowledgement of delivery.]

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