Treasury Laws Amendment (Registries Modernisation and Other Measures) Act 2020 (69 of 2020)

Schedule 1   Amendments relating to the Registrar

Part 2   Other amendments

Business Names Registration Act 2011

183   Subsections 37(6) to (8)

Repeal the subsections, substitute:

(6) If:

(a) an entity fails to comply with a request under this section; and

(b) the Registrar reasonably believes that information held by the Registrar to which the request relates is not correct;

the Registrar may delete, correct or annotate the information.

(7) If:

(a) an entity gives the Registrar information in purported compliance with a request under this section; and

(b) the Registrar reasonably believes that the information is incorrect;

the Registrar may decide not to record the information, or to record the information in a corrected or annotated form.

(8) If the Registrar deletes, corrects or annotates information under subsection (6), or decides not to record information or to record it in a corrected or annotated form under subsection (7), the Registrar must notify the entity to whom the business name is registered of the following:

(a) the action the Registrar has taken;

(b) in the case of a correction or annotation - the details of that correction or annotation;

(c) the Registrar's reasons for its decision.