C1Part 41Business names
Chapter 1Restricted or prohibited names
Supplementary
C21199AF1Exceptions based on national security etc
1
The Secretary of State may, by written notice given to a person, provide that a prohibition imposed by this Chapter does not apply in relation to the carrying on of a business by that person under a name specified in the notice, if satisfied that to do so is necessary—
a
in the interests of national security, or
b
for the purposes of preventing or detecting serious crime.
2
For the purposes of subsection (1)(b)—
a
“crime” means conduct which—
i
constitutes a criminal offence, or
ii
is, or corresponds to, any conduct which, if it all took place in any one part of the United Kingdom, would constitute a criminal offence, and
b
crime is “serious” if—
i
the offence which is or would be constituted by the conduct is an offence for which the maximum sentence (in any part of the United Kingdom) is imprisonment for 3 years or more, or
ii
the conduct involves the use of violence, results in substantial financial gain or is conduct by a large number of persons in pursuit of a common purpose.
Pt. 41 applied (8.12.2017) by The Risk Transformation Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1212), regs. 1(2), 12(8) (with reg. 189)