Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

BUSINESS NAMES ACT 1963 (REPEALED) - SECT 8

    (1)     If a business name is required to be registered under this Act and the person or each person carrying on or proposing to carry on business in the ACT under the business name resides outside the ACT, or does not have a fixed address in the ACT, the statement mentioned in section 7 (1) or section 11 (1) must—

        (a)     include the name and address of a person resident in the ACT who, in relation to the carrying on of business under the business name—

              (i)     has consented in writing to be the resident agent of the person or each of the people for this Act; and

              (ii)     is authorised in writing by the person or each of them to accept service on behalf of the person of any notices for this Act and of any process; and

        (b)     in addition, be signed by the person who has consented to be the resident agent.

    (2)     The address shown in any statement lodged with the registrar-general under this Act as the address of the resident agent appointed for this Act by the person or each of the people in relation to whom a business name is registered is, for the purpose of serving any notice or process, taken to be the address of a place where business is carried on by the person or each of them under the business name.