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These Regulations may be cited as the Company and Business Names (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 20th September 2004.
2 
In these Regulations –
 “the 1984 Regulations” means the Company and Business Names Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984;
 “the Order” means the Business Names (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.
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(1) The 1984 Regulations shall be amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 3(1), after the word “Schedule”, insert the following –“
 (together with the plural and the possessive forms of those words and expressions)”.
(3) In regulation 3(2), after the word “expression”, insert the following –“
 (and the plural and the possessive forms of that word or expression)”.
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(1) Column 1 of the Schedule to the 1984 Regulations shall be amended as follows.
(2) The words “Building Society” shall be deleted.
(3) The words “Breed”, “Breeder”, “Breeding” and “Nursing Home” and the words appearing opposite them in column 2 shall be deleted.
(4) For the words from “Chamber of Commerce” to “Chamber of Trade” there shall be substituted the following –“
 Chamber (or Chambers) of Business
 Chamber (or Chambers) of Commerce
 Chamber (or Chambers) of Commerce and Industry
 Chamber (or Chambers) of Commerce, Training and Enterprise
 Chamber (or Chambers) of Enterprise
 Chamber (or Chambers) of Industry
 Chamber (or Chambers) of Trade
 Chamber (or Chambers) of Trade and Industry
 Chamber (or Chambers) of Training
 Chamber (or Chambers) of Training and Enterprise”.
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(1) Articles 4 and 5 of the Order do not apply to the carrying on of a business by a person under a name which includes any word or expression specified for the purposes of those Articles by virtue of the amendments made by regulations 3(2), 3(3) and 4(4), if –
(a) he carried on that business immediately before 20th September 2004; and
(b) he continues to carry it on under the name which immediately before that day was its lawful business name.
(2) Nor do Articles 4 and 5 of the Order apply to the carrying on of a business by a person to whom the business has been transferred on or after 20th September 2004 during the period of 12 months beginning with the date of transfer so long as he continues to carry it on under the name which was its lawful business name immediately before the date of transfer.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on 10th August 2004.
James McKeown
A senior officer of the
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment
