Companies Act · s 304B

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304B.
Restriction on use of certain names
(1) No company incorporated outside Brunei Darussalam shall be registered by a name that, in the opinion of the Registrar, is undesirable, or is a name, or a name of a kind, that the Minister has directed the Registrar not to accept for registration.
(2) Any change in the name of a company incorporated outside
Brunei Darussalam shall not be registered if in the opinion of the Registrar the new name of the company is undesirable notwithstanding that particulars of the change have been lodged in accordance with section 30 1.
(3) No company incorporated outside Brunei Darussalam to which this Part applies shall use in Brunei Darussalam any name other than that under which it is registered under this Part.
(4) If default is made in complying with subsection (3), the company incorporated outside Brunei Darussalam, every officer of the company who is in default and every agent of the company who knowingly and wilfully authorises or permits the default is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 and a default fine.
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s 304BRestriction on use of certain names

(1)

No company incorporated outside Brunei Darussalam shall be registered by a name that, in the opinion of the Registrar, is undesirable, or is a name, or a name of a kind, that the Minister has directed the Registrar not to accept for registration.

(2)

Any change in the name of a company incorporated outside

Brunei Darussalam shall not be registered if in the opinion of the Registrar the new name of the company is undesirable notwithstanding that particulars of the change have been lodged in accordance with section 30 1.

(3)

No company incorporated outside Brunei Darussalam to which this Part applies shall use in Brunei Darussalam any name other than that under which it is registered under this Part.

(4)

If default is made in complying with subsection (3), the company incorporated outside Brunei Darussalam, every officer of the company who is in default and every agent of the company who knowingly and wilfully authorises or permits the default is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 and a default fine.