Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Subsection (1A) applies if—
(a) a person has a business name registered under this Act; and
(b) a place where business is carried on under that name (a place of business), or the address of a place of business, changes.
(1A) The person must, within 1 month after the change, lodge with the registrar a statement in the approved form—
(a) signed by the person or another person in whose name the business name was registered at the time of the change; and
(b) stating when the change occurred and particulars of the new place of business or address.
(2) Where a change occurs in the given names or family name of any person being an individual in relation to whom a business name is registered under this Act or in the corporate name or the place of the registered office of a person being a corporation in relation to which a business name is registered under this Act there shall be lodged with the registrar within 1 month thereafter a statement in the approved form signed by that person notifying the registrar of particulars of and of the date of the change.
(2A) A corporation is taken to have complied with subsection (2) if, within the time referred to therein, the change in the corporate name or, as the case may be, the change in the place of the registered office has been notified to ASIC under the Corporations Act.
(3) Where a business name is registered under this Act in relation to a person or persons and that person ceases or all or any of those persons cease to carry on business in the State under that name there shall be lodged with the registrar within 1 month thereafter a statement in the approved form notifying the registrar of the cessation and of the date thereof signed by each person who was carrying on business under that name immediately before the cessation or in the case of a deceased person by the deceased person's personal representative.
(4) Where a business name is registered under this Act in relation to a person or persons and another person or other persons commences or commence to carry on business in the State under that name in place of or in association with any person or persons in relation to whom the name is already registered, there shall be lodged with the registrar within 1 month thereafter, a statement in the approved form signed by each person carrying on business under that name immediately after that other person or those other persons so commenced carrying on business under that name, setting out the date on which that other person or those other persons so commenced to carry on business and in relation to each person required to sign the statement—
(a) who is an individual—the given names and family name, the date and place of birth and the usual place of residence of the individual; or
(b) who is a corporation—the corporation name and the place of the registered office of the corporation.
(4A) If the person commencing to carry on business under a name already registered under this Act is an individual, the statement lodged under subsection (4) must be accompanied by proof of the person's identity prescribed under a regulation.
(5) If a statement required by a provision of this section to be lodged with the registrar is not lodged in accordance with the provision, or if lodged does not comply with the provision, each person required or authorised by the provision to sign the statement shall unless the person proves that the person took all reasonable steps to ensure compliance with the provision be guilty of an offence against this Act.
Maximum penalty—4 penalty units. Default penalty.
(6) Where by reason of a person commencing to carry on business under a business name registered under this Act a statement is lodged with the registrar in accordance with and within the time prescribed by subsection (4) neither that person nor any other person shall be guilty of an offence against section 5 by reason only that before the lodging of the statement the person carried on business under that name.
(7) Any statement required to be lodged with the registrar under this section with respect to any matter may be combined with a statement required to be lodged under this section with respect to another matter.