Company and Business Names (Amendment) Regulations 1995
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1995 No. 3022
COMPANIES
BUSINESS NAMES
The Company and Business Names (Amendment) Regulations 1995
Made 23th November 1995
Laid before Parliament 29th November 1995
Coming into force 1st January 1996
The Secretary of State, in exercise of his powers under section 29 of the Companies Act 19851and sections 3 and 6 of the Business Names Act 19852hereby makes the following Regulations:—
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Company and Business Names (Amendment) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st January 1996.
2. In these Regulations:—
“the 1981 Regulations” means the Company and Business Names Regulations 19813;
“the Act” means the Business Names Act 1985.
3. The Schedule to the 1981 Regulations shall be amended as follows:—
(a) in column (1) of that Schedule, after the words “Chamber of Commerce”, there shall be inserted on a new line the words “Chamber of Commerce, Training and Enterprise”;
(b) in column (1) of that Schedule, the words “Breed”, “Breeder”, “Breeding” and “Nursing Home”, and the words appearing opposite them in column (2) of that Schedule, shall be deleted;
(c) in column (2) of that Schedule, for the words “Department of Education and Science”, in both places where they appear, there shall be substituted the words “Department for Education and Employment”.
4.—(1) Sections 2 and 3 of the Act shall not prohibit a person from carrying on any business under a name which includes any word or expression specified for the purposes of those sections by virtue of the amendment made by regulation 3(a) above to the 1981 Regulations, if—
(a)
(a) he carried on that business immediately before 1st January 1996; and
(b)
(b) he continues to carry it on under the name which immediately before that day was its lawful business name.
(2) Nor shall sections 2 and 3 of the Act prohibit a person to whom a business has been transferred on or after 1st January 1996 from carrying on that business during the period of twelve months beginning with the date of transfer so long as he continues to carry it on under the name which was its lawful business name immediately before the date of transfer.
Phillip Oppenheim
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for...
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