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Prohibition on certain names
14.—(1) An investment company with variable capital shall not have a name that—
(a)includes any of the following words or expressions, that is to say—
(i)limited, unlimited or public limited company; or
(ii)European Economic Interest Grouping or any equivalent set out in Schedule 3 to the European Economic Interest Grouping Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989();
(b)includes an abbreviation of any of the words or expressions referred to in sub-paragraph (a); or
(c)is the same as any other name appearing in the registrar’s index of company names.
(2) In determining for the purposes of paragraph (1)(c) whether one name is the same as another, there shall be disregarded—
(a)the definite article, where it is the first word of the name;
(b)the following words and expressions where they appear at the end of the name, that is to say—
“European Economic Interest Grouping” or any equivalent set out in Schedule 3 to the European Economic Interest Grouping Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989;
(c)abbreviations of any of those words or expressions where they appear at the end of the name; and
(d)type and case of letters, accents, spaces between letters and punctuation marks;
and “and” and “&” are to be taken as the same.
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