Companies Act 1976

32 Amendments of Registration of Business Names Act 1916

(1) In section 1 of the [1916 c. 58.] Registration of Business Names Act 1916 (which requires registration under that Act of persons carrying on business under a business name) after paragraph (d) there shall be inserted—

“(e) every corporation incorporated outside Great Britain having a place of business in Great Britain and carrying on business under a business name which does not consist of its corporate name without any addition ;”.

(2) In relation to any such corporation as is mentioned in subsection (1) above the said Act of 1916 shall have effect—

(a) as if references in sections 3(1), 11 and 15 to its principal place of business were references to its principal place of business in Great Britain;

(b) as if the reference in section 4 to a director or secretary of the corporation and in section 10(1) to the secretary or any other officer of the corporation performing the duties of secretary included a reference to any person responsible for the management of the business carried on by the corporation in Great Britain or any other officer of the corporation, and the reference in section 19 to every director, secretary and officer of the corporation included a reference to any such person as aforesaid.

(3) Section 13 of the said Act of 1916 (removal of name from register where person ceases to carry on business) shall apply in relation to any such corporation as is mentioned in subsection (1) above on its ceasing to carry on business in Great Britain as it applies in relation to a company as defined in the Act of 1948 on its ceasing altogether to carry on business, except that the person whose duty it is to give the notice required by subsection (1) of that section shall be every person who, when the corporation ceases to carry on business in Great Britain, is responsible for the management of the business of the corporation carried on in Great Britain or who is then an officer or liquidator of the corporation.

(4) Section 3(1) of the said Act of 1916 (particulars to be registered) and the proviso to section 5 of that Act (time for registration) shall apply in relation to registration by virtue of the preceding provisions of this section as if references to the passing of that Act were references to the coming into operation of those provisions.