UK Statutory Instrument
2015
United Kingdom
Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business (Names and Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2015
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What's here
8 compliance obligations
Who this Act binds
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- Trader 8
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Traders also bound by 826 other Acts (top 5 shown)
- Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 1995 413 duties
- Companies Act 2006 2006 243 duties
- The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 2008 114 duties
- Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 2016 62 duties
- Building Societies Act 1986 1986 56 duties
What this Act requires
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Part 1 — Introductory
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Part 2 — Company Names
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Permitted characters
Exemption from requirement as to use of “limited”
Inappropriate indication of company type or legal form: generally applicable provisions
Inappropriate indication of company type or legal form: company exempt from requirement to have name ending in “limited”
Inappropriate indication of company type or legal form: unlimited company
Name not to be the same as another in the registrar's index of company names
Consent to registration of a name which is the same as another in the registrar's index of company names
Names with connection to Public Authorities
Interpretation
Part 3 — Limited Liability Partnership Names
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Application to Limited Liability Partnerships
Part 4 — Overseas Company Names
Inappropriate indication of company type or legal form
- Do not register with a name that incorrectly indicates company type Trader
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Interpretation and permitted characters
Name not to be the same as another in the registrar's index of company names
Consent to registration of a name which is the same as another in the registrar's index of company names
Part 5 — Business Names
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“Limited” and permitted alternatives
Other indications of legal form
Names with connection to Public Authorities
Savings and Transitional provisions
Part 6 — Trading Disclosures
Requirement to display registered name at registered office and inspection place
- Display your company's registered name at your registered office and inspection places Trader
Requirement to display registered name at other business locations
- Display your company's registered name at all business locations Trader
Manner of display of registered name
- Display your company name clearly at business locations Trader
Registered name to appear in communications
- Display registered company name on all business communications and website Trader
Further particulars to appear in business letters, order forms and websites
- Disclose company registration details on letters, orders, and website Trader
Disclosure of names of directors
- Disclose all directors' names on business letters if any director named Trader
Disclosures relating to registered office and inspection place
- Disclose registered office, inspection place and records to any business contact who asks in writing Trader
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Legibility of displays and disclosures
Offence
Interpretation
Part 7 — Miscellaneous
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Revocations and Consequential Amendments
Schedules
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Table 1
Table 2
Table 3
The words and abbreviations specified are— (a) “LIMITED” or (with...
The words and abbreviations specified as similar to the words...
The expressions and abbreviations specified are— (a) “PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY”...
The expressions and abbreviations specified as similar to the expressions...
In determining whether a name is the same as another...
Taking the name remaining after the application of paragraphs 2...
Regard each permitted character set out in column 1 of...
Taking the name remaining after the application of paragraph 2,...
(1) Taking the name remaining after the application of paragraphs...
(1) Taking the name remaining after the application of paragraphs...
Taking the name remaining after the application of paragraphs 2...
Taking the name remaining after the application of paragraphs 2...
(1) Taking the name remaining after the application of paragraphs...
Taking the name remaining after the application of paragraphs 2...
The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations...
In regulation 9, for section 57 of the Act, as...
In regulation 10, for section 65 of the Act, as...
In regulation 11, for section 66 of the Act, as...
In regulation 14, for sections 82 and 83 of the...
In regulation 15, for section 85 of the Act, as...
The following Regulations are revoked— (a) The Company and Business...
In the European Economic Interest Grouping Regulations 1989 —
In the Transport Act 2000 , for section 56(5)(e) substitute—...
In Schedule 1 to the Enterprise Act 2002 (Part 8...
In the Registrar of Companies and Application for Striking Off...
In paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to the Investment Bank...
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