{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-and-business-names-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-and-business-names-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1947",
  "legislation_title": "The Company and Business Names (Amendment) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-and-business-names-amendment-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Business names",
  "text": "(1) Section 2(1)(b) of the Act does not apply to the carrying on of a business under a name which includes the word “Government” by a person—\n(a) to whom the business is transferred on or after the date on which these Regulations came into force; and\n(b) who carries on the business under the name which was its lawful business name immediately before that transfer,\nduring the period of 12 months beginning with the date of the transfer.\n(2) Section 2(1)(b) of the Act does not apply to the carrying on of a business under a name which includes the word “Government” by a person who—\n(a) carried on that business immediately before the date on which these Regulations came into force; and\n(b) continues to carry it on under the name which immediately before that date was its lawful business name.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1947/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:49:08.157849+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."
}