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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