Companies Act 1947

58 Extension of Registration of Business Names Act, 1916, to companies.

(1) In section one of the [6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. 58.] Registration of Business Names Act, 1916 (which requires registration under that Act of all individuals and firms carrying on business under a business name), there shall be inserted after paragraph (c) thereof the following paragraph:—

“(d) every company as defined in the Companies Act, 1929, carrying on business under a business name which does not consist of its corporate name without any addition;”.

(2) Subsection (1) of section three (which "relates to the particulars to be registered), and the proviso to section five (which relates to the time for registration), of the first-mentioned Act shall apply in relation to registration by virtue of this section as if references therein to the passing of that Act were references to the coming into force of this section.

(3) Section thirteen of that Act (which relates to the removal of names from the register where a firm or individual ceases to carry on business) shall apply in relation to a company registered under that Act by virtue of this section, which ceases to carry on business in such circumstances as to require registration thereunder, as it applies in relation to a firm which ceases to carry on business, but with the substitution for the reference to the partners in the firm of a reference to the directors and any liquidator of the company.