LEGAL REGULATION OF THE BUSINESS REGISTER SINCE 1950 AND IN THE PRESENT DAY IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

The article deals with the historical development of the Business Register which have been taking place in the territory of the Slovak Republic since 1950 and with the contemporary legal regulation of the Slovak Business Register. The Business Register has been amended and re-codified during almost 70 years several times. Significant milestones are the separate Act on the Enterprise Register dated 1950, the subordination of the legal regulation of the enterprise register under the Economic Code and later under the Business Code after the regime was changed as well as the change of its name to the Business Register. In the present day, the Business Register is regulated by several legal regulations – the Business Code, the Civil Non-Dispute Procedure Code, the Act on the Business Register and the Decree of the Ministry of Justice stipulating specimen of forms for filing motions for making the entry into the Business Register and a list of documents which must be enclosed to the motion for the entry. The article presented «only» summarizes facts using tools of legal comparison to highlight the context of the progress of individual legal amendments made throughout the specified time period up to the present.