PART 4Protected Cell Companies
CHAPTER 2Registration
SECTION 1Obtaining registration
The name of a protected cell company17
1
A protected cell company's name must include one of the following expressions (or their Welsh equivalents)—
“protected cell company”;
“PCC Limited”;
“PCC Ltd”.
2
No protected cell company may have a name that—
a
is undesirable or misleading;
b
includes any of the following words or expressions (or, where applicable, their Welsh equivalents)—
i
“unlimited” or “public limited company”;
ii
“insurance”, “insurer”, “insured”, “reinsurance”, “reinsurer”, “reinsured”;
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UK Economic Interest Grouping;
c
includes an abbreviation of any of the words or expressions referred to in sub-paragraph (b);
d
is the same as the name of any other protected cell company registered by the FCA;
e
is the same as the name of any other protected cell company which was registered by the FCA and then dissolved; or
f
is the same as the name of any other company appearing on the appropriate registrar's index of company names.
3
The following are to be disregarded for the purposes of determining whether one name is the same as another name—
a
the definite article, where it is the first word of the name;
b
the following words and expressions (or, where applicable, their Welsh equivalents) where they appear at the end of the name—
“company”;
“and company”;
“company limited”;
“limited”;
“unlimited”;
“public limited company”;
“protected cell company”;
“PCC Limited”;
“PCC Ltd”;
F2“UK Economic Interest Grouping”;
c
abbreviations of the words and expressions referred to in sub-paragraph (b) where they appear at the end of the name; and
d
type and case of letters, accents, spaces between letters and punctuation marks.
4
For the purposes of determining whether one name is the same as another name, “and” and “&” are to be taken to be the same.