Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023

11 Prohibition on re-registering name following direction

(1) The Companies Act 2006 is amended as follows.

(2) After section 57A (inserted by section 10 of this Act) insert—

“Prohibitions where a company has been required to change a name

57B Prohibition on re-registering name following direction

(1) Where a company’s name has at any time been changed following a direction under section 67, 75, 76, 76A or 76B, or an order under section 73, the company must not subsequently be registered under this Act by the original name or a name that is similar to it.

(2) But subsection (1) does not prevent the registration of the company by any name approved by the Secretary of State.

(3) In subsection (1)—

(a) the reference to the name of a company being changed following a direction under a particular section includes a case where a new name is determined for the company under section 76D because of its failure to comply with the direction;

(b) the reference to the name of a company being changed following an order under section 73 includes a case where a new name is determined for the company under section 73(4) because of its failure to comply with an order.”

(3) In section 1047 (registered name of overseas company), in subsection (4), after paragraph (bb) (inserted by section 10 of this Act) insert—

“(bc) section 57B (restriction on re-registering name following direction).”