The Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business (Names and Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2015

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4.  In regulation 11, for section 66 of the Act, as applied with modifications by that regulation, substitute—U.K.

66    Name not to be the same as another in the index

(1) An LLP must not be registered under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 by a name that is the same as another name appearing in the registrar's index of company names.

(2) The provisions of the Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business (Names and Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2015 supplementing this section apply to LLPs.

(3) Those provisions are—

(a)regulation 7 and Schedule 3 (matters that are to be disregarded and words, expressions, signs and symbols that are to be regarded as the same),

(b)regulation 8 (consent to registration of a name which is the same as another in the registrar's index of company names), and

(c)any other provisions of those Regulations having effect for the purpose of those provisions.

(4) In regulation 8 as applied to LLPs—

(a)for “a company” or “the company” substitute “ an LLP ” or “the LLP”,

(b)for “Company Y” substitute “ LLP Y ”, and

(c)in paragraph (1), for “the Act” substitute “ the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 ”.