The Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business (Names and Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2015

“Limited” and permitted alternativesU.K.

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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.