Section 283: Name and country of incorporation

283. Name and country of incorporation (1) Except with the written consent of the Minister, a foreign company shall not be registered by a name or an altered name that, in the opinion of the Registrar, is undesirable or is a name, or a name of a kind, that he has directed the Registrar not to accept for registration. C35 – 169 [Issue 1] Companies Act (2) No foreign company shall use in Mauritius any name other than that under which it is registered. (3) A foreign company shall— (a) conspicuously exhibit outside its registered office and every place of business established by it in Mauritius, its name and the place where it is formed or incorporated; (b) cause its name and the place where it is formed or incorporated to be stated on all its bill heads and letter paper and in all its notices, prospectuses and other official publications; and (c) where the liability of its members is limited, unless the last word of its name is the word “Limited” or “Limitée” or the abbreviation “Ltd” or “Ltée” cause notice of the fact— (i) to be stated in legible characters in every prospectus issued by it and in all its bill heads, letter paper, notices, and other official publications in Mauritius; and (ii) except in the case of a banking company, to be exhibited outside its registered office and every place of business established by it in Mauritius. (4) Where the name of a foreign company is indicated on the outside of its registered office or any place of business established by it in Mauritius or on any of the documents referred to in subsection (3) in characters or in any other way than by the use of Romanised letters, the name of the company shall also be exhibited outside such office or place of business or stated on such document in Romanised letters not smaller than any of the characters so exhibited or stated on the relevant office, place of business or document.