{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-and-business-names-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2009/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-and-business-names-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2009/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1085",
  "legislation_title": "The Company and Business Names (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-and-business-names-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "“Limited” and permitted alternatives",
  "text": "(1) A person must not carry on business in the United Kingdom under a name that concludes with any word or abbreviation set out in inverted commas in paragraph 1(a) or (b) of Schedule 2 unless that person is—\n(a) a company or an overseas company registered in the United Kingdom by that name;\n(b) an overseas company incorporated with that name; or\n(c) a society registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 or the Industrial and Provident Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 by that name.\n(2) A person must not carry on business in the United Kingdom under a name that concludes with any word or abbreviation specified as similar to any word or abbreviation set out in inverted commas in paragraph 1(a) or (b) of Schedule 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1965 c.12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1969 c.24 (N.I.)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/2404",
      "affecting_title": "The Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business Names (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/2404",
      "affecting_title": "The Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business Names (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1085/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:12:47.182005+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."
}