Section 16
Section 16
(1)
The Registrar shall keep a register and index of the business names of all firms, individuals, or corporations
Business Names registered under this Act, and of all statements furnished in reference thereto.
(2)
On receiving any statement furnished pursuant to section 6 the Registrar shall cause the business name of the firm, individual or corporation on whose behalf the statement was furnished to be entered in the register; and upon such entry being n1ade the firm, individual, or cor-poration shall be deemed to be registered.
(3)
The Registrar shall upon registration send by post or deliver a certificate thereof to the firm, individual, or corporation registering.
The certificate shall be in or to the effect of the form prescribed.
( 4) The Registrar may at any time upon proof to his satisfaction that any certificate issued in pursuance of subsection (3) or of subsection (2) of section 10 has been lost or destroyed issue a duplicate of such certificate upon payment of a fee of $5.
(5)
A certificate of the registration of the firm, indi-vidual, or corporation shall be kept exhibited in a conspi-cuous position at the principal place of business of such firm, individual, or corporation, and, if not kept so exhibited, every partner of the firm, or the individual or corporation
(as the case may be) shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $500.