Business names. The (English) Registration of Business Names Act, 1916, necessitates the registration of every firm or person carrying on business in the United Kingdom unless carried on in their true names. 'Business' includes profession. The Act imposes penalties for any period of non-registration or fraud when furnishing any statement required by the Act. S. 8 provides that any firm or person, in default of registration, shall be unable to enforce contracts made in relation to the business in respect of which the default has been made. Provisions are, however, made for obtaining relief in certain cases. Firms and persons obliged to register under the Act must set out in trade catalogues, business letters, etc., the true name or names of the person or persons trading under the business name. The fees payable on registration have been increased by s. 5 of the (English) Fees Increase Act, 1923. See also the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 145, which applies and extends the provisions of the (English) Companies (Particulars as to Directors) Act, 1917, to certain limited companies registered in England or incorporated outside Great Britain and all carrying on business here as money-lending companies and obliges them to disclose the names, nationality, if not British, and changes of name and other particulars of their directors and to set out such names on trade catalogues, etc. No proceedings for penalties are to be instituted except by or by leave of the Board of Trade. The memorandum of every company must state the name of the company (English) Companies Act, 1929 (c. 23), s. 2), and see s. 344 ibid. in regard to particulars required by the Act from foreign and other companies incorporated outside Great Britain.
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