(1) The Secretary of State may direct a company to change its name if it has been registered in a name that is the same as or, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, too like -
(a) a name appearing at the time of the registration in the registrar's index of company names, or
(b) a name that should have appeared in that index at that time.
(1A) Where a direction is given under subsection (1), the registrar may omit from the material on the register that is available for public inspection any mention of the name to which the direction relates (so far as it relates to the company to which the direction is given).
(2) The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations supplementing this section.
(3) The regulations may make provision -
(a) as to matters that are to be disregarded, and
(b) as to words, expressions, signs or symbols that are, or are not, to be regarded as the same,
for the purposes of this section.
(4) The regulations may provide -
(a) that no direction is to be giv
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