Acts and Regulations

P-5 - Partnerships and Business Names Registration Act

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Change of registered name by registrar
14(1)If, through inadvertence or otherwise, a certificate is registered in contravention of section 13, the registrar may, after giving the firm or person an opportunity to be heard, direct in writing the firm or person to change the registered name.
14(2)Where a person directed under subsection (1) to change its registered name has not within sixty days after service of that directive registered a name that does not contravene section 13, the registrar may revoke the registered name and assign a new name.
14(3)Where the registrar assigns a name to a firm or person under subsection (2), he shall issue and file a certificate of amendment showing the new name, and shall give notice of the change of name forthwith in The Royal Gazette.
R.S., c.168, s.14; 1967, c.38, s.2; 1979, c.41, s.93; 1980, c.39, s.16; 1983, c.62, s.6; 1986, c.62, s.17