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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 8 December 2017 - onwards
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Regulation 16 "Limited" and permitted alternatives

(1) A person must not carry on business in the United Kingdom under a name that concludes with any word or abbreviation set out in inverted commas in paragraph 1(a) or (b) of Schedule 2 unless that person is -

(a) a company or an overseas company registered in the United Kingdom by that name;

(b) an overseas company incorporated with that name;

(c) a society registered under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 [2014 c.14.] or the Industrial and Provident Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 [1969 c.24 (N.I.).] by that name;

(d) an incorporated friendly society (as defined in section 116 of the Friendly Societies Act 1992 [1992 c.40; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.]) which has that name;

(e) a company to which section 1040 of the Act (companies authorised to register under the Companies Act 2006) applies which has that name; or

(f) a company registered under Part 4 of the Risk Transformation Regulations 2017 with that name.