Change of Names Regulation Amendment Act 1980 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

CHANGE OF NAMES

REGULATION.

No. 13 of 1980.

AN ACT to amend the Change of Names Regulation

Act 1923-1948.

[Assented to 15 October 1980.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Change of Short title.

Names Regulation Amendment Act 1980.

(2) In this Act the Change of Names Regulation Approved for reprint 24

Act 1923-1948 is referred to as the principal Act. March 1971.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may

be cited as the Change of Names Regulation Act

1923-1980.

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Commence-

ment.

2. (1) This Act, other than paragraph (c), para- graph (d) and paragraph (e) of section 3 of this Act, shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Paragraph (c), paragraph (d) and paragraph

(e) of section 3 of this Act shall come into operation

on such day or days as is or are respectively fixed by

proclamation.

Section 2

amended. 3. Section 2 of the principal Act is amended

(a) by inserting after the section designation "2." the following subsection designation—

(1) ;

(b) by deleting "that" in line three and sub- stituting the following-

" any "

(c) by inserting after "office" in line fourteen the following-

" before the coming into operation of paragraph (c) of section 3 of the Change of Names Regulation Amend- ment Act 1980, or by license in writing of the Registrar General registered in the said public office " ;

(d) by inserting the following subsection-

" (2) Where a person has by marriage or by deed poll or by license assumed a name in place of a former name, it shall be unlawful for the person to again assume that former name unless that former name was a name by which he was registered or which he was given at birth or unless by subsequent marriage or by further deed poll or license or by statute he has again assumed that former name.

Penalty: Fifty dollars or imprisonment for three months. " ; and

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(e) by inserting the following subsections-

" (3) In the issue of a license referred to in subsection (1) the Registrar General is subject to any direction given by the Minister either generally or in a particular case.

(4) In this section

"Registrar General" means the Registrar General appointed under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1961. "

4. Section 3 of the principal Act is amended by amended. Section 3

deleting "Registration of Firms Act, 1897" and sub-

stituting the following-

" Business Names Act 1962 " .

Section 4

5.    Section 4 of the principal Act is amended by amended.

deleting "regulation, and unless and until so prescribed shall be as prescribed in the Schedule to this Act." and substituting the following-

" regulation. " .

Section 5

6. Section 5 of the principal Act is amended by amended.

deleting "enrolment" and substituting the

following-

" registration "

7.    The Schedule to the principal Act is repealed. itae.