§ 21 Identification Number of a Business

(1)  An Identification Number is used for unambiguous identification of a business and is only of recording importance^*. The manner of its assignment is stipulated by the Czech Statistical Office.
 
(2) An Identification Number is assigned to each business. The Identification Number once assigned to a particular business shall not be assigned to any other business, not even if the business to which it had been assigned no longer exists; this does not apply to instances of conversion of a business by law or change of legal form of a company^9k or co-operative^9k.

(3) Each business is assigned only one Identifica­tion Number. A business assigned an Identifi­cation Number in connection with one entrepreneurial activity and planning to carry out another shall indicate its Identifi­cation Number in any official contact with the body authorised to issue the license for carrying out this other activity.
 
(4) Unambiguous identification of a detached establishment or other organisational part with a similar status^9g is made by the Identification Number of the business whose part it is, to which a digit in brackets is attached indicating the sequence number of this establishment in the Company Register.

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* i.e. has no legal meaning in its own right. (Translator's note.)
^9g § 7(1) of the Commercial Code.
^9k § 69(2) and § 254(4) of the Commercial Code.

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