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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-and-business-names-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2009/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-and-business-names-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2009/regulation-14.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/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Other indications of legal form",
  "text": "(1) A person must not carry on business in the United Kingdom under a name that includes any expression or abbreviation set out in inverted commas in paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 unless that person is such a company, partnership, grouping or organisation as is indicated in that expression or abbreviation.\n(2) A person must not carry on business in the United Kingdom under a name that includes any expression or abbreviation specified as similar to any expression or abbreviation set out in inverted commas in paragraph 3 of Schedule 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1085/regulation/14",
    "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."
}