Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) decisions
ob体育 decisions: Your rights
ob体育 makes many decisions about corporations, securities and financial products and services that might affect you.
Information Sheet 9 ob体育 decisions: Your rights聽provides guidance on your rights connected to an ob体育 decision.
ART decisions
Below is a list of recent decisions made by the ART in relation to business and company names.
|
Matter |
Matter description |
Date of decision |
|---|---|---|
| Refusal of Ministerial Consent to use the restricted word 'trustee' in a company name | 2 August 2019 | |
| Availability of business names that are 'identical' or 'nearly identical' to a registered company name | 聽25 July 2019 | |
|
Use of restricted word in relation to a financial business |
21 March 2019 |
|
|
Availability of business names that are 'identical' or 'nearly identical' |
12 March 2019 |
|
|
Availablity of business names that are 'identical' or 'nearly identical' |
21 December 2018 |
|
|
Availablity of business names that are 'identical' or 'nearly identical' |
2 October 2018 |
|
|
Whether the proposed name is undesirable and likely to offend |
12 September 2018 |
|
|
Whether discretion is available to ob体育 to refuse to transfer and register the business name |
20 July 2018 |
|
|
Whether the proposed name is undesirable and likely to offend |
22 May 2018 |
|
|
Whether the proposed name is undesirable and likely to offend |
23 December 2015 |
|
|
Availability of business names that are 'identical' or 'nearly identical' |
30 September 2015 |
|
|
Availability of business names that are 'identical' or 'nearly identical' |
15 May 2015 |
|
|
Availability of business names that are 'identical' or 'nearly identical' |
15 May 2014 |
|
|
Availability of business names that are 'identical' or 'nearly identical' |
26 August 2014 |
|
|
Availability of business names that are 'identical' or 'nearly identical' |
7 April 2014 |