Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The registrar may cancel the registration of a business name—
(a) if there is lodged with the registrar a statement under section 12 notifying the registrar that the person or all the persons in relation to whom the business name is registered has or have ceased to carry on business in the State under that name and it does not appear from that statement or another statement accompanying that statement that another person has or other persons have commenced to carry on business in the State under that name; or
(b) if the registrar has sent notice to any person or persons in respect of the business name under section 18(1) and that person does not, or those persons do not satisfy the registrar within 1 month from the date of the notice that business is being carried on in the State by that person or those persons under that name; or
(c) if the registrar has sent a notice to any person or persons under section 18(2) and within 1 month after the date of the notice the provision of section 12 to which the notice relates has not been complied with or that person does not or those persons do not satisfy the registrar that there was no failure to comply with the provision; or
(d) if the business name is registered in relation to a corporation only and the name of the corporation has been struck off any register of corporations kept under the Corporations Act, or the corporation has been dissolved.
(2) The registrar may on any grounds which the registrar thinks sufficient revoke any cancellation of the registration of a business name and in that event the business name shall be deemed to have continued to be registered as if the registration had not been cancelled.
(3) Where the registration of a business name has been cancelled under this section a person in relation to whom the business name was registered immediately before the cancellation may apply to the District Court for an order directing the registrar to restore the registration of the business name and the decision of the court upon the application shall be final.
(4) On an application under subsection (3) the District Court may if it is satisfied that the applicant is carrying on business under the business name and that it is just and equitable so to do make the order applied for upon such terms as the court thinks fit.
(5) Upon the making of an order by the District Court under subsection (4) the business name shall be deemed to have continued to be registered as if the registration had not been cancelled and the registrar upon the lodging with the registrar of an office copy of the order shall make such entries and alterations in the register as the registrar considers necessary for the purposes of the order.