Limited Liability Partnerships (Identical Names) Rules 2005

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 11 Apr 2005

No. S 245

Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005

(Act 5 of 2005)

Limited Liability Partnerships (Identical Names) Rules 2005

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 19(10) of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005, the Registrar of Limited Liability Partnerships hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Limited Liability Partnerships (Identical Names) Rules 2005 and shall come into operation on 11th April 2005.

Identical names

2.—(1) For the purposes of section 19 (1) (b) and (c) of the Act —

(a)

in determining whether one name is identical to another, the following shall be disregarded:

(i)

“The”, where it is the first word of the name;

(ii)

“Limited Liability Partnership”, “LLP”, “Private”, “Pte”, “Sendirian”, “Sdn”, “Limited”, “Ltd”, “Berhad” and “Bhd”;

(iii)

the following words or expressions where they appear at the end of the name, except where the limited liability partnership and corporation concerned are related to each other:

“ “company”, “and company”, “corporation”, “Incorporated”, “Asia”, “Asia Pacific”, “International”, “Singapore”, “South Asia”, “South East Asia” and “Worldwide”;”.

(iv)

any word or expression which, in the opinion of the Registrar, is intended to represent any word or expression in sub-paragraph (iii), except where the limited liability partnership and corporation concerned are related to each other;

(v)

the plural version of the name;

(vi)

the type and case of letters, accents, spacing between letters, brackets, parenthesis and punctuation mark; and

(b)

the symbol “&” shall have the same meaning as the word “and”.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a)(iii) and (iv), a limited liability partnership is related to a corporation if the corporation is a partner of the limited liability partnership and signifies its consent to the use of the name by that limited liability partnership.

Mediation

3. The Registrar may, with a view to resolving any dispute over the use of a name, refer the parties involved to mediation before giving any direction.

Made this 11th day of April 2005.

JUTHIKA RAMANATHAN

Registrar of Limited Liability Partnerships,
Singapore.

[F14.13.2843; AG/LEG/SL/163A/2005/2 Vol. 1]

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