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formation of the company, or by a person named in the articles as
a director or secretary of the company, of compliance with all or
any of the said requirements shall be produced to the registrar, and
the registrar may accept such a declaration as sufficient evidence of
compliance.

wo of 16.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a company

pany as limited. Tegistered as unlimited may register under this Act as limited,
or a company already registered as a limited company may re-register
under this Act, but the registration of an unlimited company as a
limited company shall not affect the rights or liabilities of the
company in respect of any debt or obligation incurred, or any
contract entered into, by, to, with, or on behalf of the company
before the registration, and those rights or liabilities may be enforced
in manner provided by Part IX. of this Act in the case of a company
registered in pursuance of that Part.

(2) On registration in pursuance of this section the registrar
shall close the former registration,of the company, and may dispense
with the delivery to him of copies of any documents with copies
of which he was furnished on the occasion of the original registration
of the company, but, save as aforesaid, the registration shall take
place in the same manner and shall have effect as if it were the first
registration of the company under this Act, and as if the provisions
of the Acts under which the company was previously registered and
regulated had been contained in different Acts from those under
which the company is registered as a limited company.

Provisions with respect to Names of Companies.
17.—(x) No company shall be registered by a name which—

(a) is identical with that by which a company in existence is
already registered, or so nearly resembles that name as to
be calculated to deceive, except where the company in
existence is in the course of being dissolved and signifies
its consent in such manner as the registrar requires; or
contains the words ‘Chamber of Commerce,” unless the
company is a company which is to be registered under a
licence granted in pursuance of the next following section
of this Act without the addition of the word “Limited”
to its name; or

(¢) contains the words ‘Building Society.”

(2) Except with the consent of the Board of Trade no company
shall be registered by a name which—

(a) contains the words “Royal” or “Imperial” or in the
opinion of the registrar suggests, or is calculated to suggest,
the patronage of His Majesty or of any member of the
Royal Family or connection with His Majesty’s Government
or any department thereof; or
contains the words “Municipal” or ‘Chartered’ or in
the opinion of the registrar suggests, or is calculated to
suggest, connection with any municipality or other local

Restriction on
registration of
companies by
certain names.