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Restrictions on change of name by aliens.
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8.—(1) Save if and so far as may be authorised by a licence issued under this Act, it shall not be lawful for any alien of or over the age of twenty-one years to assume or use or purport to assume or use or to continue the assumption or use after the appointed day of any name other than the name by which he was ordinarily and usually known on whichever of the following days is the later, that is to say, the 6th day of December, 1922, or the day before the date on which he attained the age of twenty-one years.
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(2) Save if and so far as may be authorised by a licence issued under this Act, it shall not be lawful for an alien to carry on or continue to carry on after the appointed day either alone or in partnership with another person or other persons any trade or business under any name or style other than the name or style under which such trade or business was or is carried on—
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(a) where such alien began or begins to carry on, either alone or in partnership with another person or persons, such trade or business before the appointed day (whether before or after the passing of this Act), on whichever of the following days was or is the later, that is to say, the 6th day of December, 1922, or the day on which he began or begins so to carry on such trade or business, or
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(b) where such alien begins so to carry on such trade or business on or after the appointed day, the day on which he so begins to carry on such trade or business.
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(3) In the case of a trade or business carried on by two or more persons in partnership under a style or name which is substantially a combination of the respective names of such persons, no change in such style or name which is made in consequence of and substantially corresponds to a change in the membership of such partnership shall be a change of such style or name for the purposes of the next preceding sub-section of this section.
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(4) In the case of a woman, neither the assumption on her marriage of the surname of her husband nor the use of that surname after her marriage shall be a contravention of this section.
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(5) Every person who acts in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds and a further fine not exceeding one pound for every day on which the offence is continued.
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(6) The Minister may by order appoint a day, not earlier than three months after the date of such order, to be the appointed day for the purpose of this section and the next following section, and in this section and the said next following section the expression “the appointed day” means the day so appointed:
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