796 SECRETARIAL PRACTICE 
or person has carried on such business before the passing of this 
Act or commences such business within two months thereafter, 
the statement of particulars shall be furnished after the expiration 
of two months and before the expiration of three months from 
the passing of this Act, and that if at the expiration of the said 
two months the conditions affecting the firm or persons have 
ceased to be such as to require registration under this Act, the 
firm or person need not be registered so long as such conditions 
continue. 
This section shall apply, in the case where registration is 
required in consequence of a change of name, as if for references 
to the date of the commencement of the business there were 
substituted references to the date of such change. 
Registration of 
changes in firm. 
Penalty for 
default in 
registration. 
Disability of 
persons in 
default. 
6.—Whenever a change is made or occurs in any of the parti- 
culars registered in respect of any firm or person such firm or 
person shall, within fourteen days after such change, or such 
longer period as the Board of Trade may, on application being 
made in any particular case, whether before or after the expiration 
of such fourteen days, allow, furnish by sending by post or delivery 
to the registrar in that part of the United Kingdom in which the 
aforesaid particulars are registered a statement in writing in the 
prescribed form specifying the nature and date of the change 
signed, and where necessary verified, in like manner as the 
statement required on registration. 
»v—If any firm or person by this Act required to furnish a 
statement of particulars or of any change in particulars shall 
without reasonable excuse make default in so doing in the 
manner and within the time specified by this Act, every partner 
in the firm or the person so in default shall be liable on summary 
conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during 
which the default continues, and the court shall order a statement 
of the required particulars or change in the particulars to be 
furnished to the registrar within such time as may be specified 
in the order. 
8.—(1) Where any firm or person by this Act required to furnish 
a statement of particulars or of any change in particulars shall 
have made default in so doing, then the rights of that defaulter 
under or arising out of any contract made or entered into by or 
on behalf of such defaulter in relation to the business in respect 
to the carrying on of which particulars were required to be 
furnished at any time while he is in default shall not be enforceable 
by action or other legal proceeding either in the business name or 
otherwise: 
Provided always as follows: — 
(a) The defaulter may apply to the court for relief against 
the disability imposed by this section, and the court, on 
being satisfied that the default was accidental or due to 
inadvertence, or some other sufficient cause, or that on 
other grounds it is just and equitable to grant relief,