{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-37.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1986/1032",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (revoked)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked",
  "path": "article/37",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Alternatives of statutory designations",
  "text": "(1) A company which by any provision of this Order is either required or entitled to include in its name, as the last part, any of the words specified in paragraph (4) may, instead of those words, include as the last part of its name the abbreviations there specified as alternatives in relation to those words.\n(2) A reference in this Order to the name of a company or to the inclusion of any of those words in a company's name includes a reference to the name including (in place of any of the words so specified) the appropriate alternative, or to the inclusion of the appropriate alternative, as the case may be.\n(3) A provision of this Order requiring a company not to include any of those words in its name also requires it not to include the abbreviated alternative specified in paragraph (4).\n(4) For the purposes of this Article—\n(a) the alternative of “limited” is “ltd.”; and\n(b) the alternative of “public limited company” is “p.l.c.”; and\n(c) the alternative of “community interest company” is “c.i.c.”; and\n(d) the alternative of “community interest public limited company” is “community interest p.l.c.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 37(4)(c)(d) and preceding word inserted (6.4.2007) by Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2, Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1093), arts. 1(3), 6(2), Sch. 4 para. 49 (with art. 11(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/1032/article/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:35.100869+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."
}