Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsIn this Act—
approved form see section 31A.
business includes trade and profession.
business name means a name, style, title, or designation under which a business is carried on.
carrying on business includes establishing a place of business and soliciting or procuring any order from a person in the State, and to carry on business has a corresponding meaning.
corporation means any body corporate formed or incorporated, whether in the State or outside the State, and includes any foreign company within the meaning of the Corporations Act.
data processor means a mechanical, electronic or other device for the processing of data.
director, in relation to a corporation, includes any person occupying the position of director of the corporation, by whatever name called.
firm means an unincorporated body of persons (whether consisting of individuals or of corporations or partly of individuals and partly of corporations) associated together for the purpose of carrying on business.
initial includes a recognised abbreviation of a given name.
prescribed fee means the fee prescribed under a regulation.
register means a register of business names kept under this Act.
registrar means any registrar of business names under this Act.
repealed Act means the Registration of Firms Act 1942.
secretary, in relation to a corporation, includes any person performing the duties of secretary of the corporation and in relation to a corporation registered under the Corporations Act, part 5B.2, division 2 includes the agent of the corporation appointed for the purpose of that division.
transparency see Evidence Act 1977, part 7.