Companies Act 1985

25 Name as stated in memorandum

(1) The name of a public company must end with the words " public limited company " or, if the memorandum states that the company's registered office is to be situated in Wales, those words or their equivalent in Welsh ("cwmni cyfyngedig cyhoeddus "); and those words or that equivalent may not be preceded by the word " limited " or its equivalent in Welsh (" cyfyngedig ").

(2) In the case of a company limited by shares or by guarantee (not being a public company), the name must have " limited " as its last word, except that—

(a) this is subject to section 30 (exempting, in certain circumstances, a company from the requirement to have " limited " as part of the name), and

(b) if the company is to be registered with a memorandum stating that its registered office is to be situated in Wales, the name may have " cyfyngedig " as its last word.