{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-1194",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-1194.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/1194",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1194",
  "heading": "Other sensitive words or expressions",
  "text": "(1) A person must not, without the approval of the Secretary of State, carry on business in the United Kingdom under a name that includes a word or expression for the time being specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State under this section.\n(2) Regulations under this section are subject to approval after being made.\n(3) A person who contravenes this section commits an offence.\n(4) Where an offence under this section is committed by a body corporate, an offence is also committed by every officer of the body who is in default.\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale and, for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1194 wholly in force at 1.10.2009; s. 1194 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 1300; s. 1194 in force for specified purposes at 20.1.2007 by S.I. 2006/3428, art. 3(3) (subject to art. 5, Sch. 1 and with arts. 6, 8, Sch. 5); s. 1194 otherwise in force at 1.10.2009 by S.I. 2008/2860, art. 3(x) (with arts. 5, 7, 8, Sch. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2009/1802, art. 18)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/1194",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:40.060156+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}