Section 854 CAMA 2020

Section 854 Companies and Allied Matters Act is about Permitted characters. It is under Chapter 1 (Establishment of administrative proceedings committee) of the Act.

(1) The Minister may make provision by regulations—

(a) as to the letters or other characters, signs or symbols (including accents and other diacritical marks) and punctuation that may be used inthe name of a company, limited liability partnership, business name or incorporated trustee registered under this Act ; and

(b) specifying a standard style or format for the name of a company,limited liability partnership, business name or incorporated trustee for the purposes of registration.

(2) The regulations may prohibit the use of specified characters, signs or symbols when appearing in a specified position (in particular, at the beginning of a name).

(3) A company, limited liability partnership, business name or incorporated trustee may not be registered under this Act by a name that consists of or includes anything that is not permitted in accordance with regulations under this section.