Registration of Business Names Act, 1963

Repeals and consequential provisions.

21.—(1) The Registration of Business Names Act, 1916, is hereby repealed.

(2) The Defamation Act, 1961 , is hereby amended—

(a) by the deletion, in the definition of “newspaper” in section 2, of “except in section 27”,

(b) by the repeal of section 27.

(3) The register kept under the repealed enactment shall be deemed part of the register for the purposes of this Act.

(4) All statements and particulars furnished, statutory declarations made, notices, certificates, certified copies and extracts given and things done under the repealed enactment shall have effect as if furnished, made, given or done under this Act.