2.—(1) This regulation sets out the characters, signs, symbols (including accents and other diacritical marks) and punctuation that may be used in the name of a company registered under the Act (“the permitted characters”).
(2) The following permitted characters may be used in any part of the name—
(a)any character, character with an accent or other diacritical mark, sign or symbol set out in table 1 in Schedule 1;
(b)0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9;
(c)full stop, comma, colon, semi-colon or hyphen; and
(d)any other punctuation referred to in column 1 of table 2 in Schedule 1 but only in one of the forms set out opposite that punctuation in column 2 of that table.
(3) The signs and symbols set out in table 3 in Schedule 1 are permitted characters that may be used but not as one of the first three permitted characters of the name.
(4) The name must not consist of more than 160 permitted characters.
(5) For the purposes of computing the number of permitted characters in paragraph (4) of this regulation (but not in paragraph (3) of this regulation), any blank space between one permitted character and another in the name shall be counted as though it was a permitted character.