Paragraph 17 A company’s name (ss. 53 to 81)I1

United Kingdom

(1)

The following provisions of the Companies Act 2006 do not affect the continued registration of a company by a name by which it was duly registered—

(a)

in the case of an existing company, immediately before 1st October 2009, or

(b)

in the case of a transitional company, on its registration or re-registration (as the case may be).

(2)

The provisions are—

(a)

section 54 (name suggesting connection with government or public authority);

(b)

section 55 (other sensitive words or expressions);

(c)

section 57 (permitted characters etc);

(d)

section 65 (inappropriate use of indications of company type or legal form);

(e)

section 66 (name not to be the same as another in registrar’s index).

Annotations

C1: Sch. 2 applied (with modifications) (31.12.2023) by The Resolution of Central Counterparties (Modified Application of Corporate Law and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1313), regs. 1(2), 6