C1Part 34Overseas companies
Registration of particulars
I11047Registered name of overseas company
1
Regulations under section 1046 (duty to register particulars) must require an overseas company that is required to register particulars to register its name.
2
This may be—
a
the company's corporate name (that is, its name under the law of the country or territory in which it is incorporated) or
b
an alternative name specified in accordance with section 1048.
3
Subject only to subsection (5), an EEA company may always register its corporate name.
4
In any other case, the following provisions of Part 5 (a company's name) apply in relation to the registration of the name of an overseas company—
a
section 53 (prohibited names);
b
sections 54 to 56 (sensitive words and expressions);
c
section 65 (inappropriate use of indications of company type or legal form);
d
sections 66 to 74 (similarity to other names);
e
section 75 (provision of misleading information etc);
f
section 76 (misleading indication of activities).
5
The provisions of section 57 (permitted characters etc) apply in every case.
6
Any reference in the provisions mentioned in subsection (4) or (5) to a change of name shall be read as a reference to registration of a different name under section 1048.
Pts. 1-39 (except for Pt. 7 and ss. 662-669), 45-47 extended (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 2