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(1)The Secretary of State may direct a company to change its name if it has been registered in a name that is the same as or, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, too like—
(a)a name appearing at the time of the registration in the registrar’s index of company names, or
(b)a name that should have appeared in that index at that time.
(2)The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations supplementing this section.
(3)The regulations may make provision—
(a)as to matters that are to be disregarded, and
(b)as to words, expressions, signs or symbols that are, or are not, to be regarded as the same,
for the purposes of this section.
(4)The regulations may provide—
(a)that no direction is to be given under this section in respect of a name—
(i)in specified circumstances, or
(ii)if specified consent is given, and
(b)that a subsequent change of circumstances or withdrawal of consent does not give rise to grounds for a direction under this section.
(5)Regulations under this section are subject to negative resolution procedure.
(6)In this section “specified” means specified in the regulations.
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