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SECRETARIAL PRACTICE
(2) If from any information so furnished it appears to the
Board of Trade that any firm or person ought to be registered under
this Act, or an alteration ought to be made in the registered
particulars, the Board may require the firm or person to furnish
to the registrar the required particulars within such time as may
be allowed by the Board, but, where any default under this
Act has been discovered from the information acquired under
this section, no proceedings under this Act shall be taken against
any person in respect of such default prior to the expiration of
“he time within which the firm or person is required by the
Board under this section to furnish particulars to the registrar.

Registrar to
file statement
and issue
certificate of
registration.

Index to be
kept.

Removal of
names from
register.

Misleading
business
names.

11.—On receiving any statement or statutory declaration made
in pursuance of this Act the registrar shall cause the same to be
filed, and he shall send by post or deliver a certificate of the
registration thereof to the firm or person registering and the
certificate or a certified copy thereof shall be kept exhibited in a
conspicuous position at the principal place of business of the
firm or individual, and if not kept so exhibited, every partner in
the firm or the person, as the case may be, shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

12.—At each of the register offices hereinafter referred to the
registrar shall keep an index of all the firms and persons registered
at that office under this Act.

13.—(1) If any firm or individual registered under this Act
ceases to carry on business, it shall be the duty of the persons
who were partners in the firm at the time when it ceased to carry
on business or of the individual or if he is dead his personal
representative, within three months after the business has ceased
to be carried on, to send by post or deliver to the registrar notice
in the prescribed form that the firm or individual has ceased to
carry on business, and if any person whose duty it is to give such
notice fails to do so within such time as aforesaid, he shall be
liable on summary conviction to. a fine not exceeding twenty
pounds.

(2) On receipt of such a notice as aforesaid the registrar may
remove the firm or individual from the register.

(3) Where the registrar has reasonable cause to believe that
any firm or individual registered under this Act is not carrying
on business he may send to the firm or individual by registered
post a notice that, unless an answer is received to such notice
within one month from the date thereof, the firm or individual
may be removed from the register.

(4) If the registrar either receives an answer from the firm or
individual to the effect that the firm or individual is not carrying
on business or does not within one month after sending the notice
receive an answer, he may remove the firm or individual from the
register.

14.—(1) Where any business name under which the business of
a firm or individual is carried on contains the word ‘ British’’ or