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BUSINESS NAMES REGISTRATION
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(a) the Registrar may cancel the registration of the individual proprietor, the firm or the foreign company; and
(b) the individual proprietor, the partners of the firm or the foreign company, as the case may be, shall each be guilty of an offence and shall each be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000.

(6) Any person who was a prescribed person for the purposes of section 20(2) of the repealed Act before the appointed day may, on and after that day but before such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, prescribe, continue to carry out any transaction with the Registrar using the electronic transaction system which was permitted or required to be done by the prescribed person in relation to the service referred to in section 20(1) of the repealed Act immediately before the appointed day.

(7) The service referred to in section 20(1) of the repealed Act immediately before the appointed day is, on and after that day, to be treated as the electronic transaction system referred to in section 29 of this Act.

(8) Any application for registration under the provisions of the repealed Act before the appointed day which was pending immediately before that day is, where applicable, to be treated as an application for registration under the corresponding provisions of this Act.

(9) Any reservation of name under section 13(3) of the repealed Act which has not expired before the appointed day is to be treated as a reservation of name under the corresponding provisions of this Act but the reservation expires on the date on which the reservation would have expired if the repealed Act were still in force.

(10) Where an appeal has been made to the Minister under the repealed Act and the appeal has not been dealt with or disposed of immediately before the appointed day, the appeal may be dealt with in accordance with that repealed section as if this Act had not been enacted.