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(4) Benefits accruing from the Business Names Act 1963 are as follows:
(a) The ACT community and residents of the Canberra region are able to fully identify the business proprietors with whom they carry on business in order to resolve disputes, commence legal proceedings or report unlawful operations to the Registrar and the ACT Consumer Affairs Bureau.
(b) The business community is able to identify business names
which are similar or identical to those they propose to use,
thus avoiding any compromise of business opportunity through
confusion of business names amongst their customers in the
market place. Similarly national companies and interstate
traders are able to avoid registration of names nationally
which conflict with those of their ACT business counterparts.
(c) Government at Territory and Commonwealth levels is able to identify business proprietors for regulating and maintaining good business relations in the ACT and the administration of government programs generally.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Mrs Carnell might also like to know that the application and renewal fees in NSW are recommended to rise above $100 soon, Tasmanias fee is $90 , Queenslands fee of $84 is for one year only, the equivalent of $173 when renewals are accounted for.
Fees under the Act were increased by a 3% CPI factor in 1992 with minor fees below $20 remaining unchanged as they have done for the last three years.
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