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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 August 2014 - onwards
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11. Registered name to be displayed and used

(1) A registered society must ensure that its registered name appears in a conspicuous position and in legible characters on the outside of -

(a) its registered office, and

(b) every other office or place in which its business is carried on.

(2) A registered society's registered name must appear in legible characters -

(a) in all of its notices, advertisements and other official publications,

(b) in all of its business correspondence,

(c) in all bills of exchange, promissory notes, endorsements, cheques and orders for money or goods, purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the society,

(d) in all its other business documentation, and

(e) on all its websites.

(3) An officer of a registered society, or any other person acting on behalf of a registered society, who -

(a) issues or authorises the issue of a document within subsection (2)(a), (b) or (d) that does not comply with subsection (2),