{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/economic-crime-and-corporate-transparency-act-2023/section-20",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/56",
  "legislation_title": "Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/economic-crime-and-corporate-transparency-act-2023",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Registrar’s power to change company’s name for breach of direction",
  "text": "After section 76C of the Companies Act 2006 (inserted by section 19 of this Act) insert—\n“Registrar’s power to change name for failure to comply with direction\n76D (1) Where a company fails to comply with a direction to change its name, the registrar may determine a new name for the company.\n(2) The reference in subsection (1) to a direction to change a company’s name is to a direction under section 64, 67, 75, 76, 76A or 76B.\n(3) If the registrar determines a new name for a company under this section, the registrar must—\n(a) give the company notice of the determination, and\n(b) place a note of the determination in the register.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 20 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 219(1)(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 20 in force at 4.3.2024 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(p)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/56/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:49:37.581581+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."
}