Reglas de Registro de nombres comerciales, 1995 (CH.330, Sección 18), Bahamas

REGISTRATION OF BUSINESS NAMES RULES, 1995

(SECTION 18)

[Commencement 2nd July, 1995]

               1.These Rules may be cited as the Registration of Business Names Rules, 1995.

2.Whenever any act is by the Registration of Business Names Act (“the  Act”) required to be done by the Registrar, the act shall be done by the Registrar General or by the Deputy Registrar General.

Procedure under section 15

3.Where the Registrar, pursuant to section 15(1) of the Act, decides to refuse to register any business name or, as the case may be, to remove any business name from the register, he shall send by post to the firm or individual applying for registration or, as the case may be, registered in respect of the business name, a notice in writing of his decision, and the notice shall contain a statement that any person  aggrieved  by  the  decision  may  appeal  to  the Minister within twenty-one days of the notice.

4.If within twenty-one days from the date of the notice of a decision of the Registrar under section 15(1) of the Act to remove a business name from the register, no notice of appeal from the decision is received by the Registrar, or if on appeal the decision of the Registrar is upheld, the Registrar shall remove the business name from the register in accordance with his decision.

Appeals to the Minister

5.Any person intending to appeal to the Minister from any decision of the registrar under section 15(1) of the Act shall, within twenty-one days of the date of the notice of the decision, deliver to the Registrar a notice of appeal in Form 10 and such notice shall be accompanied by a statement of the grounds of appeal and of the appellant’s case in support thereof.

6.A copy of the notice of appeal, together with a copy of the statement of the grounds of appeal and of the case in support thereof, and a copy of the notice of the Registrar’s decision shall at the same time be delivered by the appellant to the Minister.

    7.The decision of the Minister shall be communicated to the appellant in writing.

8.The time prescribed in these Rules for doing any act  thereunder by or to the Registrar, or by or to the Minister may be extended by the Minister upon such terms as he may direct, and the extension may be granted though the time has expired for doing such act.

Fees

    9.The fees to be paid to the Registrar under the Act shall be as follows —

     (a)  on a Statement of Particulars required by section 5 of the Act, the sum of fifty dollars annually;

    (b) on any Statement of Particulars required by the Schedule to the Act when such particulars are not furnished with the Statement of Particulars required by section 5 of the Act, the sum of five dollars;

   (c)  on a statement of any change within the meaning of section 8 of the Act, the sum of ten dollars;

   (d) by any person inspecting under the provisions of section 17 of the Act the documents filed by the Registrar, the sum of five dollars for each inspection;

   (e) on the application of any person requiring under section 17 of the Act a certificate of registration of any firm, individual or corporation or a certified copy of or extract from any registered statement the sum of five dollars for a certificate of registration and for each certified copy or extract the sum of five dollars;