The Patents and Companies Registration Office

About PACRO

Statutes administered

Government institutions

Employment opportunities s

Who is PACRO? Mission and Vision Functions

Cap 388 The Companies Act Cap 389 The Registration of Business Names Act Cap 400 The Patents Act Cap 401 The Trademarks Act Cap 402 The Industrial Designs Act

Zambia Development Agency Zambia Competition Commission Zambia Bureau of Standards Citizens Economic Empowerment Zambia Revenue Authority

Name Clearance Guidelines File Searches and Company Printouts Other Services

What is a patent? How to obtain a patent Post granting Requirements

What is a trademark? How to register a trademark Post registration Requirements

What is an industrial design? How to register an industrial design Post registration Requirements

What is a limited company? How to register a limited company Annual Returns Post incorporation requirements

What is a business name? How to register a business name Annual Returns Post registration requirements

What is a foreign company? How to register a foreign company Post Registration Requirements

Mortgages Increase in capital Receiverships Liquidations Deregistration of companies

Company Forms and Fees

Business Names Forms and Fees

Foreign Company Forms and Fees

Patent Forms and Fees

Trademark Forms and Fees

Industrial Designs Forms and Fees

Company Forms Company Fees

Business Name Forms Business Names Fees

Foreign Company Forms Foreign Company Fees

Patent Forms Patent Fees

Trademark Forms Trademark Fees

Industrial Designs Forms Industrial Designs Fees

Calendar of Events News Articles Archive

Companies Business Names Foreign Companies Patents Trademarks Industrial Designs

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Mission

Provide efficient and effective registration and protection systems for commercial and intellectual property rights in order to promote innovation and orderly trade for the benefit of the nation.

HOW TO REGISTER A BUSINESS NAME

Registration of Business Names in Zambia is governed by the Registration of Business Names Act Cap. 389 of the Laws of Zambia. Click here to view the Act. The particular form to be used in applying for registration of a Business Name depends on whether the applicant is an individual, a group of individuals or a body corporate:-

1.	Sole Proprietorship	BN Form III
2.	Partnership	BN Form II
3.	Body corporate	BN Form II & Form I
4.	Entities not registered with PACRO	BN Form II & Form IX

Fees applicable to Business Names

Registration fees for Business Names are as follows:-

1.	Sole Proprietorship	K80,000
2.	Partnership	K80,000
3.	Body corporate	K105,000
4.	Entities not registered with PACRO	K105,000

The sealing and issuing of the Certificate of registration marks the end of the process for registration of a business. However, if the proposed name of the business is rejected on approval stage, the client is requested to collect the name clearance forms and pay a name search fee of K25,000. The process of name clearance as stipulated above is once again followed.

Click here for post registration requirements for Business Names

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AIDS

PACRO has responded to the pandemic by forming an HIV and AIDS Committee at place of work. Let us show love to our friends living with HIV/AIDS "My friend with HIV/AIDS is still my friend". Medication may relieve the physical pain, but our concern, care and compassion to the sick prevents stigmatization. Click for more