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Alteration and cancellation of registration.
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12.—(1) The Minister may at any time alter or amend any entry in a register kept in pursuance of this Part of this Act on the application of the person to whom such entry relates or for the purpose of correcting any error or inaccuracy in such entry.
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(2) The Minister shall, upon the application of a person registered in a register kept in pursuance of this Part of this Act, cancel the registration of such person in such register.
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(3) The Minister may at any time, without any such application as aforesaid, cancel any registration in a register kept in pursuance of this Part of this Act if he is satisfied—
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(a) that such registration was obtained by fraud or misrepresentation, whether fraudulent or innocent, or
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(b) that the person registered in such register has ceased to carry on the business in respect of which he was so registered, or
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(c) that the person registered in such register, if an individual, has died, or, if a body corporate, has been dissolved, or
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(d) that the person registered in such register has contravened any provision of or any regulation made under this Act.
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(4) Before cancelling (otherwise than in accordance with an application in that behalf made under this section) the registration of any person who is registered in a register kept in pursuance of this Part of this Act, the Minister shall give to such person or to his personal representative or liquidator (as the case may be) at least fourteen days notice in writing of his intention so to cancel such registration, and shall consider any representations made within fourteen days after the service of such notice by such person or personal representative or liquidator (as the case may be) and shall, if requested, cause an inquiry to be held in relation to the matter.
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(5) Any such notice as is mentioned in the next preceding sub-section of this section may be served by delivering it to the person to whom it is addressed or by sending it by post to such person addressed to him at his last known place of abode.
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(6) Where the Minister has cancelled under this section the registration of any person, the Minister may at any time thereafter refuse to register such person in any register kept in pursuance of this Part of this Act.
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