(1) A person who is not a public limited company or (after the end of the general transitional period) is an old public limited company shall be guilty of an offence if he carries on any trade, profession or business under a name which includes, as its last part, the words "public limited company", or "cuideachta phoiblí theoranta" or abbreviations of those words.
(2) A public limited company other than an old public limited company shall be guilty of an offence if, in circumstances in which the fact that it is a public limited company is likely to be material to any person, it uses a name which may reasonably be expected to give the impression that it is a company other than a public limited company.
(3) Where, within the re-registration period, an old public limited company applies to be re-registered under section 12 as a public limited company, then -
(a) during the twelve months following the re-registration, any provision of section 114(1)(b) or (c) of the Principal Act; an