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COMPANIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978 - SECT 122

122.(1) In section 1 of the Registration of Business Names Act 1916 (which
requires registration under that Act of persons carrying on business under a
business name) after paragraph (d) there shall be inserted

<"(e)every corporation incorporated outside Northern Ireland having a place of business in Northern Ireland and carrying on business under a business name which does not consist of its corporate name without any addition;".


(2) In relation to any such corporation as is mentioned in paragraph (1) the
said Act of 1916 shall have effect

(a)as if references in sections 3(1) and 11 to its principal place of business
were references to its principal place of business in Northern Ireland;

(b)as if the reference in section 4 to a director or secretary of the
corporation and in section 10(1) to the secretary or any other officer of the
corporation performing the duties of secretary included a reference to any
person responsible for the management of the business carried on by the
corporation in Northern Ireland or any other officer of the corporation, and
the reference in section 19 to every director, secretary and officer of the
corporation included a reference to any such person as aforesaid.

(3) Section 13 of the said Act of 1916 (removal of name from register where
person ceases to carry on business) shall apply in relation to any such
corporation as is mentioned in paragraph (1) on its ceasing to carry on
business in Northern Ireland as it applies in relation to a company as defined
in the principal Act on its ceasing altogether to carry on business, except
that the person whose duty it is to give the notice required by subsection (1)
of that section shall be every person who, when the corporation ceases to
carry on business in Northern Ireland, is responsible for the management of
the business of the corporation carried on in Northern Ireland or who is then
an officer or liquidator of the corporation.

(4) Section 3(1) of the said Act of 1916 (particulars to be registered) and
the proviso to section 5 of that Act (time for registration) shall apply in
relation to registration by virtue of the preceding provisions of this Article
as if references to the passing of that Act were references to the coming into
operation of those provisions.

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