Registration of traders5

1

Every person who on the date on which these Regulations come into force is, or on a subsequent date becomes, a trader, shall within 21 days of that date furnish to the Board for entry in the register kept under regulation 4 the particulars specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.

2

Where any change occurs in the particulars required to be furnished by a trader under paragraph (1) above he shall within 21 days of the change furnish amended particulars to the Board.

3

Where a trader dies or becomes incapacitated or bankrupt or, in Scotland, where his estate is sequestrated or where he enters into a trust deed for his creditors, any person carrying on his business as a trader, being an executor, personal representative, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee in a trust deed for creditors, receiver, judicial factor, liquidator, or person otherwise acting in a representative capacity, shall within 21 days of commencing to do so furnish to the Board particulars of that fact, of his name and address for correspondence, of the date of the death or of the nature of the incapacity and the date on which it began.

4

Where a person ceases to carry on a business as a trader he shall, within 10 days of the date on which he does so, furnish to the Board particulars of—

a

the date on which he ceased to carry on the business; and

b

the person (if any) succeeding to the business.

5

The information required to be furnished under the foregoing provisions of this regulation shall be furnished to the Board in writing.