{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-agents-act-1995/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-agents-act-1995/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/24",
  "legislation_title": "Crown Agents Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-agents-act-1995",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Use of “Crown Agents” as part of company name.",
  "text": "The words “Crown Agents” may, notwithstanding anything in section 54(1)(a) of the Companies Act 2006 (prohibition of name giving impression of connection with Her Majesty’s Government), be used as part of the name of—\n(a) the successor company,\n(b) any company of which the successor company is a wholly-owned subsidiary, or,\n(c) any subsidiary of the successor company or any such company;\nand the power conferred by section 76 of the Companies Act 2006 (power to require company to abandon misleading name) shall not apply in relation to the use of those words as part of the name of any such company.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 154(2)(a) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 154(2)(b) (with art. 10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/24/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:03.663947+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."
}