C2C1Part 34Overseas companies
Pts. 1-39 (except for Pt. 7 and ss. 662-669), 45-47 extended (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 2
Registration of particulars
I11047Registered name of overseas company
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Regulations under section 1046 (duty to register particulars) must require an overseas company that is required to register particulars to register its name.
2
This may be—
a
the company's corporate name (that is, its name under the law of the country or territory in which it is incorporated) or
b
an alternative name specified in accordance with section 1048.
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F2... The following provisions of Part 5 (a company's name) apply in relation to the registration of the name of an overseas company—
a
section 53 (prohibited names);
b
sections 54 to 56 (sensitive words and expressions);
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section 57 (permitted characters etc);
c
section 65 (inappropriate use of indications of company type or legal form);
d
sections 66 to 74 (similarity to other names);
e
section 75 (provision of misleading information etc);
f
section 76 (misleading indication of activities).
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Any reference in the provisions mentioned in subsection (4) F5... to a change of name shall be read as a reference to registration of a different name under section 1048.
Pts. 1-39 modified (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EC) No. 2157/2001, Art. AAA1(3) (as inserted by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 97 (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))