{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-65.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/65",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Inappropriate use of indications of company type or legal form",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations prohibiting the use in a company name of specified words, expressions or other indications —\n(a) that are associated with a particular type of company or form of organisation, or\n(b) that are similar to words, expressions or other indications associated with a particular type of company or form of organisation.\n(2) The regulations may prohibit the use of words, expressions or other indications—\n(a) in a specified part, or otherwise than in a specified part, of a company's name;\n(b) in conjunction with, or otherwise than in conjunction with, such other words, expressions or indications as may be specified.\n(3) A company must not be registered under this Act by a name that consists of or includes anything prohibited by regulations under this section.\n(4) In this section “specified” means specified in the regulations.\n(5) Regulations under this section are subject to negative resolution procedure.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 65 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2009) by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1804), regs. 2, 10 (with Sch. 1 paras. 3, 34, 35) (as amended (31.1.2015) by The Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business (Names and Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/17), reg. 1(1), Sch. 5 para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 65 wholly in force at 1.10.2009; s. 65 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 1300; s. 65 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. 65 otherwise in force at 1.10.2009 by S.I. 2008/2860, art. 3(e) (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/65",
    "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."
}