Companies Act 1985

27 Alternatives of statutory designations

(1) A company which by any provision of this Act is either required or entitled to include in its name, as its last part, any of the words specified in subsection (4) below may, instead of those words, include as the last part of the name the abbreviations there specified as alternatives in relation to those words.

(2) A reference in this Act to the name of a company or to the inclusion of any of those words in a company's name includes a reference to the name including (in place of any of the words so specified) the appropriate alternative, or to the inclusion of the appropriate alternative, as the case may be.

(3) A provision of this Act requiring a company not to include any of those words in its name also requires it not to include the abbreviated alternative specified in subsection (4).

(4) For the purposes of this section—

(a) the alternative of " limited " is " ltd.";

(b) the alternative of " public limited company" is p.l.c. ;

(c) the alternative of " cyfyngedig " is " cyf."; and

(d) the alternative of "cwmni cyfyngedig cyhoeddus" is " c.c.c.".