Business Names Registration (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2011 (127 of 2011)

Schedule 1   Transitional provisions

Part 4   Information-gathering for transitional purposes

17   Nominating a principal place of business and address for service

(1) If a business name is registered to an entity under this Act:

(a) in a case where more than one principal place of business is entered on the Business Names Register in relation to the registration - ASIC may request the entity to nominate a single principal place of business to be entered on the Business Names Register; and

(b) in a case where more than one address for service is entered on the Business Names Register in relation to the registration - ASIC may request the entity to nominate a single address for service to be entered on the Business Names Register.

(2) ASIC's request must:

(a) be in writing; and

(b) specify the period, of no less than 28 days beginning on the day on which the notice is given, within which the nomination is to be lodged with ASIC (the nomination period ).

The request is not a legislative instrument.

(3) The nomination:

(a) must be in the prescribed form; and

(b) must be lodged with ASIC in the prescribed manner.

(4) If the nomination is not lodged with ASIC within the nomination period:

(a) where more than one principal place of business is entered on the Business Names Register in relation to the registration - ASIC may select from those a place to be entered on the Business Names Register as the principal place of business; and

(b) where more than one address for service is entered on the Business Names Register in relation to the registration - ASIC may select from those an address to be entered on the Business Names Register as the address for service.