Industrial Research and Standards Act, 1961

Restriction on registration under Registration of Business Names Act, 1916.

29.—(1) A person shall not be registered under the Registration of Business Names Act, 1916, after the commencement of this Act by a name containing or consisting of the word “Caighdeán”, or the word “Standard”, or the initials “C.É.” or “I.S.” or by a name which so nearly resembles any such word or initials as to be likely to deceive.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to the registration of a person by a name similar to that by which any predecessor in business of that person was, immediately before the commencement of the Act of 1946, registered under the Companies Acts, 1908 to 1924, or the Registration of Business Names Act, 1916.