Organization : Financial Services Commission
Type of Facility : Business Names Registration
Country: Montserrat
Website : http://www.fscmontserrat.org/legislations/
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Business Names Registration :
Firms and persons to be registered:
Subject to the provisions of this Act:
(a) every firm having a place of business in Montserrat and carrying on business under a business name which does not consist of the true surnames of all partners who are individuals and the corporate names of all partners who are corporations without any addition other than the true Christian names of individual partners or initials of such Christian names;
Related : Financial Services Commission Trade Marks Registration Montserrat : www.statusin.org/8361.html
(b) every individual having a place of business in Montserrat and carrying on business under a business name which does not consist of his true surname without any addition other than his true Christian names or the initials thereof;
(c) every individual or firm having a place of business in Montserrat, who, or a member of which, has either before or after the commencement of this Act changed his name, except in the case of a woman in consequence of marriage,
Shall be registered in the manner directed by this Act:
Provided that :
(i) where the additional merely indicates that the business is carried on in succession to a former owner of the business, that addition shall not of itself render registration necessary; and
(ii) where two or more individual partners have the same surname, the addition of an s at the end of that surname shall not of itself render registration necessary; and
(iii) where the business is carried on by a trustee in bankruptcy or an Official Receiver or a receiver or manager appointed by the Court, registration shall not be necessary; and
(iv) a purchase or acquisition of property by two or more persons as joint tenants or tenants in common is not of itself to be deemed carrying on a business whether or not the owners share any profits arising from the sale thereof.
Registration by nominee, etc.:
Where a firm, individual, or corporation having a place of business within Montserrat carries on the business wholly or mainly as nominee or trustee of or for another person, or other persons, or another corporation, or acts as general agent for any foreign firm the first mentioned firm, individual, or corporation shall be registered in manner provided by this Act, and, in addition to the other particulars required to be furnished and registered the particulars mentioned in the Schedule hereto: Provided that where the business is carried on by a trustee in bankruptcy or an Official Receiver or a receiver or manager appointed by the Court, registration under this section shall not be necessary
Time for registration:
(1) The particulars required to be furnished under this Act shall be furnished within fourteen days after the firm or person commences business, or the business in respect of which registration is required as the case may be.
(2) 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:
Whenever a change is made or occurs in any of the particulars 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 Registrar may, on application being made in any particular case, whether before or after the expiration of such fourteen days, allow, furnish to the Registrar 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.