Business Names Registration (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Act 2020

Business Names Registration (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Act 2020

No. 66, 2020

Compilation No. 3

Compilation date: 30 June 2026

Includes amendments: Act No. 57, 2026

About this compilation

This compilation

This is a compilation of the Business Names Registration (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Act 2020 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 30 June 2026 (the compilation date).

The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.

Uncommenced amendments

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Application, saving and transitional provisions

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Self‑repealing provisions

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Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Business Names Registration (Fees) Act 2011

Endnotes

Endnote 1—About the endnotes

Endnote 2—Abbreviation key

Endnote 3—Legislation history

Endnote 4—Amendment history

An Act to amend the Business Names Registration (Fees) Act 2011, and for related purposes

1  Short title

  This Act is the Business Names Registration (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Act 2020.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note 1: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

Note 2: Item 2 of Schedule 1 commenced on 10 August 2022: see the Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Act 2022 (table item 6 of subsection 2(1) and Part 2 of Schedule 4).

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3  Schedules

  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Business Names Registration (Fees) Act 2011

2  Validation of acts or things done during interim period

Object

(1) The object of this item is to treat all situations during the interim period in every respect as if:

 (a) the amendments made by Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Act 2022 had been made at the start of 21 June 2022; and

 (b) the amendments made by the postponed items had not been made at the start of 22 June 2022 and had had no effect during the interim period.

Validation of acts and things done in interim period

(2) An act or thing that was done at any time during the interim period is as valid, and is taken always to have been as valid, as it would have been if:

 (a) the amendments made by Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Act 2022 had been made at the start of 21 June 2022; and

 (b) in particular, the amendments made by the postponed items had not been made at the start of 22 June 2022 and had had no effect during the interim period.

Acts and things to which this item applies

(3) This item applies to an act or thing, regardless of the basis on which, or capacity in which, the act or thing was done or purported to be done.

Definitions

(4) In this item:

interim period means the period:

 (a) starting at the start of 22 June 2022; and

 (b) ending at the end of the day before the day on which Part 2 of Schedule 4 to the Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Act 2022 commences.

postponed item means any of the following that commenced on 22 June 2022 (disregarding Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Act 2022):

 (a) an item of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Registries Modernisation and Other Measures) Act 2020;

 (b) an item of Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response—Better Advice) Act 2021;

 (c) an item of Part 4 of Schedule 2 to the Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Act 2021.

Note Item 103 of Schedule 1 to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Registries Modernisation and Other Measures) Act 2020 is not covered by paragraph (a) because that item commenced on 4 April 2021.

Endnotes

Endnote 1—About the endnotes

The endnotes provide information about this compilation and the compiled law.

The following endnotes are included in every compilation:

Endnote 1—About the endnotes

Endnote 2—Abbreviation key

Endnote 3—Legislation history

Endnote 4—Amendment history

Abbreviation key—Endnote 2

The abbreviation key sets out abbreviations that may be used in the endnotes.

Legislation history and amendment history—Endnotes 3 and 4

Amending laws are annotated in the legislation history and amendment history.

The legislation history in endnote 3 provides information about each law that has amended (or will amend) the compiled law. The information includes commencement details for amending laws and details of any application, saving or transitional provisions that are not included in this compilation.

The amendment history in endnote 4 provides information about amendments at the provision (generally section or equivalent) level. It also includes information about any provision of the compiled law that has been repealed in accordance with a provision of the law.

Editorial changes

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Misdescribed amendments

A misdescribed amendment is an amendment that does not accurately describe how an amendment is to be made. If, despite the misdescription, the amendment can be given effect as intended, then the misdescribed amendment can be incorporated through an editorial change made under section 15V of the Legislation Act 2003.

If a misdescribed amendment cannot be given effect as intended, the amendment is not incorporated and “(md not incorp)” is added to the amendment history.

Endnote 2—Abbreviation key

Endnote 3—Legislation history

Endnote 4—Amendment history