# The Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (repealed), Article 10: Trading under misleading name

Extent: N.I.

(1) An old public company is guilty of an offence if it carries on any trade, profession or business under a name which includes, as its last part, the words “public limited company” or any contraction or imitation of those words.
(2) During the 3 years following the re-registration of an old public company under Article 10 of the Order of 1981, Article 356(1) of the principal Order and any other statutory provision requiring or authorising the name of the company to be shown on any document or other object, apply as if any reference in that provision to the name of the company were a reference to a name which either is its name or was its name before re-registration.
(3) A company guilty of an offence under paragraph (1), and any officer of the company who is in default, is liable on summary conviction as for an offence under Article 43 of the principal Order.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/1035/article/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/companies-consolidation-consequential-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1986-repealed/article-10
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