{
  "$schema": "https://govschema.org/spec/v0.3/govschema.schema.json",
  "govschemaVersion": "0.3.0",
  "id": "ug/ursb/business-name-registration-individual",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "title": "Uganda Business Name Registration by an Individual (URSB Statement of Particulars)",
  "description": "Register a business name under the Business Names Registration Act, filed with the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) as the \"Statement of Particulars required to be given pursuant to the Business Names Registration Act\" — the individual-applicant variant of the form, used when the business is owned outright by a single natural person (a sole proprietor), as distinct from URSB's separate \"Business Name Registration (Firm or Corporation)\" form used when one or more of the business's partners is itself a firm or a corporate body. It does not submit the registration; the live ursb.go.ug source and the Uganda Registration Services Bureau are always authoritative. GovSchema is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Uganda or URSB.",
  "status": "draft",
  "jurisdiction": {
    "country": "UG",
    "level": "national"
  },
  "authority": {
    "name": "Uganda Registration Services Bureau",
    "abbreviation": "URSB",
    "url": "https://ursb.go.ug"
  },
  "process": {
    "type": "registration",
    "language": "en"
  },
  "source": {
    "url": "https://ursb.go.ug/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/business-name-registration-individual-1639049617.pdf",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-07-22",
    "documentRef": "\"Statement of Particulars required to be given pursuant to the Business Names Registration Act IN CASE OF AN INDIVIDUAL\", Uganda Registration Services Bureau, native (searchable-text) PDF, 3 pages, served unauthenticated from ursb.go.ug's own Business Registration Forms page, listed there as \"Business Name Registration (Individual)\"."
  },
  "verification": {
    "method": "manual-source-review-v1",
    "lastVerifiedAt": "2026-07-22",
    "verifiedBy": "GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer)",
    "nextReviewBy": "2027-01-22",
    "notes": "GOV-4343, continuing the GOV-4307 cycle's own six-vertical Uganda screening pass, which banked this document's source as a pre-scouted STRONG candidate for Business Formation (2 of 6) alongside NIRA Form 3 (National ID, still unauthored — nira.go.ug again failed to connect when re-checked this cycle, a repeat of the timeout the GOV-4335 cycle also hit). Independently re-fetched and re-hashed the source (HTTP 200, application/pdf, 272,844 bytes, sha256 9599391278190fa1438e5bc0ee2f74ca34febe63e2b3613fb94cb94752c65571) and extracted its 3 pages' text directly via pdfjs-dist, walking each page's text-run items in document y-order to reconstruct every printed line rather than trusting any tool's own summarization. Also fetched the sibling 'Firm or Corporation' form (https://ursb.go.ug/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/business-name-registration-firm-or-corporation-1639049602.pdf, HTTP 200, 276,528 bytes) to confirm the two forms' relationship: identical shared boilerplate legal notice (verbatim, both files) plus two extra fields (10, 11 — corporate-partner name and registered office) present only in the Firm/Corporation variant. Cross-checked the raw HTML of https://ursb.go.ug/business-registration-forms/ directly (not just a WebFetch summary) and confirmed the exact link labels quoted in this document's own description: row 'a' links this schema's own source PDF as \"Business Name Registration (Individual)\"; row 'b' links the sibling PDF as \"Business Name Registration (Firm or Corporation)\". See 'Scope narrowing and why' in VERIFICATION.md for how this shaped field scope, particularly the plural 'partners' boilerplate this form's own text still carries despite being URSB's own single-individual-applicant variant."
  },
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "fields": [
    {
      "name": "businessName",
      "label": "Business name to be registered",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "description": "The trading name being registered under the Business Names Registration Act.",
      "sourceRef": "\"1 – Business name to be registered.\"",
      "validation": { "minLength": 1, "maxLength": 160 }
    },
    {
      "name": "otherBusinessNames",
      "label": "Other business name(s) traded under (if applicable)",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "description": "Where a business is carried on under two or more business names, each of these business names must be stated, per the source form's own instruction printed directly beneath field 1.",
      "sourceRef": "\"Where a business is carried on under two or more business Name, each of these business names must be stated.\" — field 1 note",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 300 }
    },
    {
      "name": "natureOfBusinessDescription",
      "label": "General nature of the business",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "\"2- General nature of the business.\"",
      "validation": { "minLength": 1, "maxLength": 500 }
    },
    {
      "name": "principalPlaceOfBusinessAddress",
      "label": "Principal place of business (plot, street and postal address)",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "description": "Printed on the form as a single ruled multi-line writing area rather than separately labelled address-line/town/postal sub-fields, so this document follows the source's own single free-text field.",
      "sourceRef": "\"3- Principal place of business. Plot, Street and Postal Address.\"",
      "validation": { "minLength": 1, "maxLength": 300 }
    },
    {
      "name": "applicantChristianNames",
      "label": "Present Christian name(s)",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "sourceRef": "\"4.- Present Christian name (or names), surname and age\"",
      "validation": { "minLength": 1, "maxLength": 160 }
    },
    {
      "name": "applicantSurname",
      "label": "Surname",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "sourceRef": "\"4.- Present Christian name (or names), surname and age\"",
      "validation": { "minLength": 1, "maxLength": 100 }
    },
    {
      "name": "applicantAge",
      "label": "Age",
      "type": "number",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "sourceRef": "\"4.- Present Christian name (or names), surname and age\"",
      "validation": { "minimum": 0, "maximum": 120 }
    },
    {
      "name": "applicantOfNonEuropeanOrigin",
      "label": "Is the applicant of non-European origin?",
      "type": "boolean",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Not printed as a checkbox on the form; modelled here as an unprinted boolean gate for the conditional father's-name requirement field 4 itself states, since GSP-0013's Condition grammar needs a machine-checkable field to gate on rather than an open-ended textual condition. Retained using the source's own 1918-era Business Names Registration Act terminology rather than a paraphrase, consistent with this registry's practice of quoting a government form's own language even where it reflects dated statutory drafting.",
      "sourceRef": "\"If any of the individuals who are partners are of non-European origin, Such individual or individuals (as the case may be) must also state the Christian name (or names) or surname if his, her or their fathers respectively\" — field 4"
    },
    {
      "name": "applicantFatherName",
      "label": "Father's Christian name (or names) or surname",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "applicantOfNonEuropeanOrigin", "equals": true },
      "classification": "pii",
      "sourceRef": "\"...must also state the Christian name (or names) or surname if his, her or their fathers respectively\" — field 4",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 160 }
    },
    {
      "name": "applicantFormerName",
      "label": "Former Christian name(s) and surname (if any)",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "sourceRef": "\"5- Former Christian name (or names), and surname (if any)\"",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 200 }
    },
    {
      "name": "applicantNationality",
      "label": "Nationality",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "sourceRef": "\"6- Nationality\"",
      "validation": { "minLength": 1, "maxLength": 100 }
    },
    {
      "name": "applicantNationalityOfOrigin",
      "label": "Nationality of origin (if different from present nationality)",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "description": "Per field 6's own instruction: if the nationality stated is not the nationality of origin, the nationality of origin must in any case also be stated.",
      "sourceRef": "\"If the Nationality stated is not the nationality or origin, such nationality of origin must in any case be stated.\" — field 6",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 100 }
    },
    {
      "name": "applicantResidentialAddress",
      "label": "Usual place of residence (plot, street and postal address)",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "sourceRef": "\"7- Usual place of residence. Plot, Street and Postal Address.\"",
      "validation": { "minLength": 1, "maxLength": 300 }
    },
    {
      "name": "applicantOtherOccupation",
      "label": "Other business occupation (if any)",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "classification": "pii",
      "sourceRef": "\"8 – Other business occupation (if any)\"",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 200 }
    },
    {
      "name": "dateOfCommencement",
      "label": "Date of commencement of business",
      "type": "date",
      "required": true,
      "description": "Field 9's own text states the date need only be given where the business was commenced after 15 October 1918; every present-day registration necessarily post-dates that threshold, so this field is always applicable in practice.",
      "sourceRef": "\"9- Date of commencement of business. The date need only be stated where the business was commenced after The 15th day of October 1918.\""
    },
    {
      "name": "applicationDate",
      "label": "Date of this application",
      "type": "date",
      "required": true,
      "sourceRef": "\"Dated this…………………………………..day of ……………………………………………………………..20.......\""
    },
    {
      "name": "signature",
      "label": "Signature",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "classification": "pii",
      "sourceRef": "\"Signed: …..…………………………………………\""
    },
    {
      "name": "signedByApplicantInPerson",
      "label": "Is this application signed by the individual applicant in person?",
      "type": "boolean",
      "required": true,
      "description": "Not printed as a checkbox; modelled as an unprinted boolean gate for the Statutory Declaration section. The form's own introductory notice states the form must be signed either by all the individuals who are partners, or (in cases where it is instead signed by one individual on behalf of the business, or by a director/secretary of a corporate partner) a statutory declaration as to the truth of the particulars must additionally be made, per section 6 of the Business Names Registration Act. For this single-individual-applicant form, that reduces to: the sole applicant signing in person needs no further declaration, but signature by any other authorized person on the applicant's behalf triggers the Statutory Declaration requirement.",
      "sourceRef": "\"This form must be signed either (a) by all the individuals who are partners... or (b) by one individual who is a partner in the firm... but in cases (b) and (c), a statutory declaration as to the truth of the particulars contained in the form must be made as per reverse. (Vide sec. 6 of the Act).\" — form introductory notice"
    },
    {
      "name": "declarantName",
      "label": "Statutory declaration — declarant's full name",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "signedByApplicantInPerson", "equals": false },
      "classification": "pii",
      "sourceRef": "\"I, …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………\" — Statutory Declaration",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 200 }
    },
    {
      "name": "declarantAddressInUganda",
      "label": "Statutory declaration — declarant's address",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "signedByApplicantInPerson", "equals": false },
      "classification": "pii",
      "sourceRef": "\"of…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Uganda\" — Statutory Declaration",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 300 }
    },
    {
      "name": "declarationPlace",
      "label": "Statutory declaration — place declared",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "signedByApplicantInPerson", "equals": false },
      "sourceRef": "\"DECLARED at ………………………………………..\" — Statutory Declaration",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 160 }
    },
    {
      "name": "declarationDistrict",
      "label": "Statutory declaration — district",
      "type": "string",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "signedByApplicantInPerson", "equals": false },
      "sourceRef": "\"in this …………………………………………………….District Of…………………………………………\" — Statutory Declaration",
      "validation": { "maxLength": 160 }
    },
    {
      "name": "statutoryDeclarationDate",
      "label": "Statutory declaration — date declared",
      "type": "date",
      "required": false,
      "requiredWhen": { "field": "signedByApplicantInPerson", "equals": false },
      "description": "The declaration itself is sworn before a Magistrate or Commissioner for Oaths, whose own signature block on the same page officializes the declaration; that officiating signature is a third party's own certification, not applicant-supplied data, and is excluded here (consistent with this registry's established treatment of notary/officiant blocks elsewhere).",
      "sourceRef": "\"this…………………………….day of…………………………20…………\" — Statutory Declaration"
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "business_details",
      "title": "Business name and details",
      "fields": [
        "businessName",
        "otherBusinessNames",
        "natureOfBusinessDescription",
        "principalPlaceOfBusinessAddress"
      ],
      "next": "applicant"
    },
    {
      "id": "applicant",
      "title": "Individual applicant's particulars",
      "fields": [
        "applicantChristianNames",
        "applicantSurname",
        "applicantAge",
        "applicantOfNonEuropeanOrigin",
        "applicantFatherName",
        "applicantFormerName",
        "applicantNationality",
        "applicantNationalityOfOrigin",
        "applicantResidentialAddress",
        "applicantOtherOccupation"
      ],
      "next": "commencement"
    },
    {
      "id": "commencement",
      "title": "Commencement of business",
      "fields": [
        "dateOfCommencement"
      ],
      "next": "declaration"
    },
    {
      "id": "declaration",
      "title": "Declaration",
      "fields": [
        "applicationDate",
        "signature",
        "signedByApplicantInPerson"
      ],
      "next": "statutory_declaration"
    },
    {
      "id": "statutory_declaration",
      "title": "Statutory declaration (where not signed by the applicant in person)",
      "fields": [
        "declarantName",
        "declarantAddressInUganda",
        "declarationPlace",
        "declarationDistrict",
        "statutoryDeclarationDate"
      ]
    }
  ]
}