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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-and-business-names-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2009/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
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  "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": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The expressions and abbreviations specified are—\n(a) “PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY” or (with or without full stops) the abbreviation “PLC”;\n(b) “CWMNI CYFYNGEDIG CYHOEDDUS” or (with or without full stops) the abbreviation “CCC”;\n(c) “COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY” or (with or without full stops) the abbreviation “CIC”;\n(d) “CWMNI BUDDIANT CYMUNEDOL” or (with or without full stops) the abbreviation “CBC”;\n(e) “COMMUNITY INTEREST PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY” or (with or without full stops) the abbreviation “COMMUNITY INTEREST PLC”;\n(f) “CWMNI BUDDIANT CYMUNEDOL CYHOEDDUS CYFYNGEDIG” or (with or without full stops) the abbreviation “CWMNI BUDDIANT CCC”;\n(g) “RIGHT TO ENFRANCHISEMENT” or (with or without full stops) the abbreviation “RTE”;\n(h) “HAWL I RYDDFREINIAD”;\n(i) “RIGHT TO MANAGE” or (with or without full stops) the abbreviation “RTM”;\n(j) “CWMNI RTM CYFYNGEDIG”;\n(k) “EUROPEAN ECONOMIC INTEREST GROUPING” or (with or without full stops) the abbreviation “EEIG”;\n(l) “INVESTMENT COMPANY WITH VARIABLE CAPITAL”;\n(m) “CWMNI BUDDSODDI A CHYFALAF NEWIDIOL”;\n(n) “LIMITED PARTNERSHIP”;\n(o) “PARTNERIAETH CYFYNGEDIG”;\n(p) “LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP”;\n(q) “PARTNERIAETH ATEBOLRWYDD CYFYNGEDIG”;\n(r) “OPEN-ENDED INVESTMENT COMPANY”;\n(s) “CWMNI BUDDSODDIANT PENAGORED”;\n(t) “CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION”;\n(u) “SEFDYDLIAD ELUSENNOL CORFFOREDIG”; and\n(v) the following abbreviations (with or without full stops) of the expressions specified in sub-paragraphs (n), (o), (p), (q), (t) and (u) respectively, namely “LP”, “PC”, “LLP”, “PAC”, “CIO” and “SEC”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "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/2014/1815",
      "affecting_title": "The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "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"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1085/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:12:47.182005+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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