REGISTRATION OF BUSINESS NAMES ACT, 1916 799 
any other word which, in the opinion of the registrar, is calculated 
to lead to the belief that the busines is under British ownership or 
control, and the registrar is satisfied that the nationality of the 
persons by whom the business is wholly or mainly owned or 
controlled is at any time such that the name is misleading, the 
registrar shall refuse to register such business name or, as the 
case may be, remove such business name from the register, but 
any person aggrieved by a decision of the registrar under this 
provision may appeal to the Board of Trade, whose decision shall 
be final. 
(2) The registration of a business name under this Act shall 
not be construed as authorising the use of that name if apart from 
such registration the use thereof could be prohibited. 
15. There shall be offices in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin 
for the registration of firms and persons whose principal places 
of business are respectively situated in England and Wales, 
Scotland, and Ireland, and the registrar of companies in each 
of those cities or such other person as the Board of Trade may 
determine shall be the registrar for the purposes of this Act. 
16. At any time after the expiration of six months from the 
passing of this Act or of such longer period, not being more than 
nine months from the passing of this Act, as the Board of Trade 
may by order direct, any person may inspect the documents filed 
by the registrar on payment of such fees as may be prescribed 
not exceeding one shilling for each inspection; and any person 
may require a certificate of the registration of any firm or person, 
or a copy of or extract from any registered statement to be 
certified by the registrar or assistant registrar, and there shall 
be paid for such certificate of registration, certified copy, or 
extract such fees as may be prescribed not exceeding two shillings 
for the certificate of registration, and not exceeding sixpence for 
each folio of seventy-two words, or in Scotland for each sheet of 
two hundred words, of the entry, copy, or extract. 
A certificate of registration, or a copy of or extract from any 
statement registered under this Act, if duly certified to be a true 
copy or extract under the hand of the registrar or one of the 
assistant registrars (whom it shall not be necessary to prove to 
be the registrar or assistant registrar), shall, in all legal proceed- 
ings. civil or criminal, be received in evidence. 
17.—(1) The Board of Trade may make rules (but as to fees with 
the concurrence of the Treasury) concerning any of the following 
matters— 
~The fees t~ be paid to the registrar under this Act, so 
that the, ue not exceed the sum of five shillings for «he 
=r _L.-lion oi any one statemen; 
. -orms i. be used under this Ac, 
duties to be performed by anv registrar under this 
Registrar 
Inspection of 
statements 
registered. 
Power for 
Board of 
I'rade to make 
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