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Civil way: 31 July 2009

31 July 2009
Issue: 7380 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Two and a half months to go. The most entertaining of the company law changes coming into force on 1 October 2009 are the provisions in the Companies Act 2006 (which will replace the Business Names Act 1985).

Game for a name

Two and a half months to go. The most entertaining of the company law changes coming into force on 1 October 2009 are the provisions in the Companies Act 2006 (which will replace the Business Names Act 1985). Regikins is the name we give to the Company and Business Names (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2009 (SI 2009/1085). They deal with the restrictions on the choice of name under which a UK company may be registered and the name which an overseas company may use in the UK and take over from the Companies Act 1985, ss 26, 30, 31, 33, 34 and 34A.

The hardest blow is to the verbose because the name cannot consist of more than 160 permitted characters. An *, =, % or + are among the signs or

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Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

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