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16.—(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 M1 or the Industrial and Provident Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 M2 by that name;
(d)an incorporated friendly society (as defined in section 116 of the Friendly Societies Act 1992 M3) which has that name; F1...
(e)a company to which section 1040 of the Act (companies authorised to register under the Companies Act 2006) applies which has that name; [F2or]
[F3(f)a company registered under Part 4 of the Risk Transformation Regulations 2017 with that name.]
(2) A person must not carry on business in the United Kingdom under a name that concludes with any word or abbreviation specified as similar to any word or abbreviation set out in inverted commas in paragraph 1(a) or (b) of Schedule 2.
Textual Amendments
F1Word in reg. 16(1)(d) deleted (8.12.2017) by The Risk Transformation Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1212), reg. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 7(a)(i) (with regs. 189, 191)
F2Word in reg. 16(1)(e) inserted (8.12.2017) by The Risk Transformation Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1212), reg. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 7(a)(ii) (with regs. 189, 191)
F3Reg. 16(1)(f) inserted (8.12.2017) by The Risk Transformation Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1212), reg. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 7(a)(iii) (with regs. 189, 191)
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