VPRS 12346 Card Register of Business Names

This series was primarily created under the provisions of Section 6 of the Business Names Act 1962 (No. 6853). According to the provisions of the Act, each firm, individual or corporation conducting business within Victoria was required to register their business name when this was not the full give names of the individuals or partners concerned.Each card in this series refers to a single business name registration. When necessary, additional cards were created for a given registration number. Each card records the following information:. firm (business) name. type of business. place or places of business. full name, usual residence and other occupation of the person or persons carrying out the business. date of commencement of the business.The Act provided that each business name be registered through the lodgement of a statement containing the above information. This statement and subsequent documentation lodged relating to changes in these details were attached to a file pertaining to the registration. The cards also record the receipt of this statement and documentation and its placement on file.Accordingly this series controlled the arrangement of the files.Entries on these cards also detail changes to the registration and its cessation or striking off.Commencement of the seriesThese cards replaced the alphabetically arranged card register which was used since 1927. (see VPRS 12343). The date of commencement is unclear, however, the most recent card in that series dates from 1964.Cards relating to current registrations at that time were removed from VPRS 12343 and placed in this series. Consequently this series contains cards relating to:* new registrations from 1964, and* registrations which were current in 1964.End of the seriesIn the early 1980's a computerised system of controlling the Business Names Register and the allocation of registration numbers was introduced. The registration number on all cards in this series from 1977 contain computer check letters, indicating that all registrations for this period were entered into the database as were business names first registered before 1977 and still current when the computerised system was established.The registration of business names at Corporate Affairs is now fully conducted through a computerised database for all types of company registrations. Two computer output microfiche series have been generated from this database. Entries on these microfiche are arranged alphabetically.VPRS 8267/P1 Microfiche Index to Current Company Associations and Business Names RegistrationsVPRS 8268/P1 Microfiche Index to Defunct Company Associations and Business Names Registrations(Both series in archival custody are outputs from the database as at August 1990).As no further cards have been identified beyond No 698,855 in October 1986, it is assumed that all registrations were made on the database from that date.