PART XIICOMPANY ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURE
CHAPTER ICompany Identification
Company name to appear outside place of business356 F2
1
Every company shall paint or affix, and keep painted or affixed, its name on the outside of every office or place in which its business is carried on, in a conspicuous position and in letters easily legible.
2
If a company does not paint or affix its name as required by paragraph (1), the company and every officer of it who is in default is liable to a fine; and if a company does not keep its name painted or affixed as so required, the company and every officer of it who is in default is liable to a fine, for continued contravention, to a daily default fine.
Company's name to appear in its correspondence, etc.357 F3
1
Every company shall have its name mentioned in legible characters—
a
in all business letters F4and order forms of the company,
b
in all its notices and other official publications,
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on all its websites,
c
in all bills of exchange, promissory notes, endorsements, cheques and orders for money or goods purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the company, and
d
in all its bills of parcels, invoices, receipts and letters of credit.
2
If a company fails to comply with paragraph (1) it is liable to a fine.
3
If an officer of a company or a person on its behalf—
a
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causes or authorises the appearance of a website on which the company's name is not so mentioned, or
b
issues or authorises the issue of any bill of parcels, invoice, receipt or letter of credit of the company in which its name is not so mentioned,
he is liable to a fine.
4
If an officer of a company or a person on its behalf signs or authorises to be signed on behalf of the company any bill of exchange, promissory note, endorsement, cheque or order for money or goods in which the company's name is not mentioned as required by paragraph (1), he is liable to a fine; and he is further personally liable to the holder of the bill of exchange, promissory note, cheque or order for money or goods for the amount of it (unless it is duly paid by the company).
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References in this Article to a document of any type are to a document of that type in hard copy, electronic or any other form.
Company seal358 F10
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A company which has a common seal shall have its name engraved in legible characters on the seal; and if it fails to comply with this paragraph it is liable to a fine.
2
If an officer of a company or a person on its behalf uses or authorises the use of any seal purporting to be a seal of the company on which its name is not engraved as required by paragraph (1), he is liable to a fine.
Particulars in correspondence, etc.359
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Every company shall have the following particulars mentioned in legible characters in all business letters and order forms of the company F14, and on all the company's websites, , namely—
a
the company's place of registration and the number with which it is registered,
b
the address of its registered office,
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in the case of an investment company (as defined in Article 274), the fact that it is such a company, and
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If in the case of a company having a share capital there is a reference to the amount of share capital—
a
on the stationery used for any such letters,
b
on the company's order forms, or
c
on any of the company's websites,
the reference must be to paid-up share capital.
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As to contraventions of this Article, the following applies—
a
if a company fails to comply with paragraph (1) or (2), it is liable to a fine, and
b
if an officer of a company or a person on its behalf issues or authorises the issue of any business letter or order form not complying with those paragraphs, he is liable to a fine.
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if an officer of a company or a person on its behalf causes or authorises the appearance of a website not complying with those paragraphs, he is liable to a fine.
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References in this Article to a document of any type are to a document of that type in hard copy, electronic or any other form.