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Chapter: | 310A
 | Title: | BUSINESS REGISTRATION REGULATIONS | Gazette Number: | L.N. 168 of 2010 |
| Regulation: | 4 | Heading: | The register | Version Date: | 21/02/2011 |
(1) On receipt of a business registration application or a branch registration application in a form provided for in regulation 3(1), the Commissioner must assign an identifying number to the application.
(1A) As soon as practicable after receipt by the Registrar of an incorporation application, the Commissioner must assign an identifying number in relation to the application, and that identifying number becomes the identifying number of the related simultaneous business registration application on the incorporation of the company concerned. (13 of 2010 s. 22)
(1B) If section 5B(1) and (2) of the Ordinance applies, as soon as practicable after receipt by the Registrar of a company registration application, the Commissioner must assign an identifying number to the related simultaneous business registration application. (13 of 2010 s. 22)
(2) The Commissioner must maintain a register which consists of-
- (a) the following information, as supplemented or replaced by information from time to time received by the Commissioner under section 6(4D) or 8 of the Ordinance-
- (i) information submitted in applications made to the Commissioner under section 5 of the Ordinance or section 4 of the Business Regulation Ordinance 1952 (14 of 1952);
(ii) information submitted in simultaneous business registration applications; and
- (a) shall be kept in a form that allows the retrieval of all entries currently in it in relation to any business, to the exclusion of entries in relation to any other business; and
(b) need not be kept in documentary form.
(4A) The Commissioner may remove from the register all particulars (except the name and the identifying numbers assigned under subregulation (1), (1A) or (1B)) in respect of- (13 of 2010 s. 22)
- (a) any business which has been found untraceable by the Commissioner during the period of 10 years immediately preceding the date of the removal; or
(b) any business which has not paid the prescribed business registration fee or prescribed branch registration fee or the levy as required under the Ordinance for a continuous period of 10 years immediately preceding the date of the removal. (L.N. 52 of 1999)
(4C) The particulars in respect of a business removed from the register under subregulation (4A)(a) may be reinstated on the register where the person carrying on the business provides to the Commissioner such information as to enable the Commissioner to trace the business and provided that all outstanding fees and levies relating to the business together with any penalties payable are paid. (L.N. 52 of 1999)
(4D) The particulars in respect of a business removed from the register under subregulation (4A)(b) may be reinstated on the register where all outstanding fees and levies relating to the business together with any penalties payable are paid. (L.N. 52 of 1999)
(4E) Where the Commissioner has reinstated any particulars under subregulation (4C) or (4D), he shall record the reinstatement on the register in such manner as he sees fit. (L.N. 52 of 1999)
(4F) The Commissioner may remove from the register any information in respect of any business where such information has been replaced by information received by the Commissioner under section 8 of the Ordinance, or has otherwise become obsolete, for a period of 10 years immediately preceding the date of the removal. (L.N. 52 of 1999)
(4G) Any information removed from the register under subregulation (4F) shall not be reinstated on the register. (L.N. 52 of 1999)
(5) In this regulation references to a business include references to a branch of a business.