Section 5, The Business Registration Act, 1983

(1) Upon the registration or the licensing of any businessunder section 4 of this Act, the Registrar shall,forthwith, deliver to the proprietor of the business, a certificate of registration or, as the case may be, a licence of that business. (2) The certificate ofregistration orthe licence shall be pre pared in triplicate the originalcopy of which shallbe forwarded to the proprietor, theduplicate copy to the Commissioner of Income Tax and the triplicatecopy shall be 1etained by the Registrar. (3) The certificate of registration or the licence or a cer tified copy thereof shall be kept exhibited in a conspicuous position at a principal place in which the business is carried on and, if not so exhibited, theproprietor of the business, and, if there is more than No, 13 Business Reglstration 1983 5 one proprietor, each ofthem shall be guilty of an offence and shall, upon sümmary conviction, be liableto a fne not exceeding two hundred leones.