Companies Act · 2021 Revised Edition · Part 9
304B. Restriction on use of certain names
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
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.
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.
Registrar
"Registrar" means the Registrar of Companies appointed under section 288, and includes any Deputy Registrar or Assistant Registrar;
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.
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.
officer
"officer", in relation to a corporation, includes - (a) any director or secretary of the corporation or a person employed in an executive capacity by the corporation; @) a receiver and manager of any part of the undertaking of the corporation appointed under a power contained in any instrument; and (c) any liquidator of a company appointed in a voluntary winding up, but does not include - (i) any receiver who is not also a manager; (ii) any receiver and manager appointed by the Court; (iii) any liquidator appointed by the Court or by the creditors; and (iv) an Executive Manager appointed by the Minister under section 230(1) of the Insolvency Order, 2016 (S 112016);
Register of members of foreign companies [S 37/2020]
Terms defined in s 2
default fine
Defined · s 2"default fine" means a default fine within the meaning of section 3 14;
officer
Defined · s 2"officer", in relation to a corporation, includes - (a) any director or secretary of the corporation or a person employed in an executive capacity by the corporation; @) a receiver and manager of any part of the undertaking of the corporation appointed under a power contained in any instrument; and (c) any liquidator of a company appointed in a voluntary winding up, but does not include - (i) any receiver who is not also a manager; (ii) any receiver and manager appointed by the Court; (iii) any liquidator appointed by the Court or by the creditors; and (iv) an Executive Manager appointed by the Minister under section 230(1) of the Insolvency Order, 2016 (S 112016);
Registrar
Defined · s 2"Registrar" means the Registrar of Companies appointed under section 288, and includes any Deputy Registrar or Assistant Registrar;
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