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Alteration or cancellation of registration.
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61.—(1) The appropriate Minister may, at any time, alter the registration of any person in any register kept by him upon the application of such person, or, in the case of an individual, his personal representative or, in the case of a body corporate, the liquidator.
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(2) The appropriate Minister shall cancel the registration of any person in any register kept by him upon the application of such person or, in the case of an individual, his personal representative or, in the case of a body corporate, the liquidator.
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(3) The appropriate Minister may at any time without such application as aforesaid alter any registration in any register kept by him in any respect in which such registration appears to him to be erroneous or misleading.
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(4) The appropriate Minister may at any time without any such application as aforesaid cancel any registration in any register kept by him if—
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(a) he is satisfied that the registration was procured through fraud or by misrepresentation; or
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(b) 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) the person registered in such register, if an individual, has died, or, if a body corporate, has been dissolved and no other person has within three months after such death or dissolution, been registered in the place of the registered person so dead or dissolved; or
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(d) the person registered in such register has been adjudicated a bankrupt; or
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(e) the person registered in such register has been convicted of an offence under this Act.
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(5) Before altering or cancelling (otherwise than in accordance with an application in that behalf made under this section) the registration of any person, the appropriate Minister shall give at least one month's notice in writing to such person or his personal representative (if any) or its liquidator (as the case may be) stating his intention so to alter or cancel such registration and the reasons therefor, and whenever any such notice is so given the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—
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(a) that Minister shall not alter or cancel such registration until the expiration of such notice; and
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(b) where any representations are made before the expiration of such notice by the person to whom such notice is given, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—
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(i) that Minister shall consider such representations, and
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(ii) unless as a result of such consideration he decides not to alter or cancel such registration, that Minister, in case such person, before such expiration, requests that an inquiry be held in relation to the matter, shall or, in any other case if he thinks fit so to do, may cause such inquiry to be held, and
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(iii) where that Minister causes any such inquiry to be held, he shall not alter or cancel such registration until such inquiry has concluded.
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(6) A notice of the appropriate Minister's intention to cancel or alter a registration may be served by delivering it to the person to whom it is addressed or by sending it by registered post to the person to whom it is addressed at his last known place of abode.
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