Section 35: Name of company

35. Name of company (1) No company, including a foreign company, shall be registered under a name which is identical with that of an existing company, or statutory corporation, except where the existing company or statutory corporation is in the course of being dissolved and signifies its consent in such manner as the Registrar requires. C35 – 37 [Issue 9] Companies Act (2) Except with the Registrar’s written consent and in accordance with Practice Directions which may be issued under section 12 (8), no company, including a foreign company, shall be registered under a name which includes— (a) the word “Authority”, “Corporation”, “Government”, “Mauritius”, “National”, “President”, “Presidential”, “Regional”, “Republic”, “State”, or any other word which, in the Registrar’s opinion, suggests, or is likely to suggest, that it enjoys the patronage of the Government or of a statutory corporation, or of the Government of any other State; (b) the word “Municipal”, “Chartered” or any other word which, in the Registrar’s opinion, suggests, or is likely to suggest, connection with a local authority in Mauritius or elsewhere; (c) the word “co-operative”; (d) the words “Chamber of Commerce”. (3) Except with the consent of the Court, no company, including a foreign company, shall be registered by a name, which in the opinion of the Registrar is undesirable or misleading. [S. 35 amended by s. 10 (e) of Act 9 of 2015 w.e.f. 14 May 2015; s. 9 (e) of Act 18 of 2016 w.e.f. 7 September 2016.]