Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023

21 Sections 19 and 20: consequential amendments

(1) In section 80 (change of name: registration and issue of new certificate of incorporation), for subsections (1) and (2) substitute—

“(1) This section applies where—

(a) the registrar receives notice of a change of a company’s name and is satisfied—

(i) that the new name complies with the requirements of this Part, and

(ii) that the requirements of the Companies Acts, and any relevant requirements of the company’s articles, with respect to a change of name are complied with, or

(b) the registrar determines a new name for a company under section 76C or 76D.

(2) The registrar must enter the new name on the register in place of the former name.”

(2) In section 1047 (registered name of overseas company), in subsection (4), after paragraph (h) (inserted by section 18 of this Act) insert—

“(i) section 76C (registrar’s power to change name containing computer code);

(j) section 76D (registrar’s power to change name for failure to comply with direction).”