Business Registration (Identical Names) Rules

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Business Registration Act

(CHAPTER 32, Section 11(10))

Business Registration (Identical Names) Rules

R 1

G.N. No. S 23/2003

REVISED EDITION 2004

(29th February 2004)

[13th January 2003]

Citation

1. These Rules may be cited as the Business Registration (Identical Names) Rules.

Identical names

2.—(1) For the purposes of section 11 (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)

“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 business 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 business 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”.

[S 340/2004 wef 01/02/2004]

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a)(iii) and (iv), a business is related to a corporation if the corporation is the person carrying on that business.

[S 340/2004 wef 01/02/2004]

Mediation

3. The Registrar may, with a view to resolving any dispute over the use of a name, refer the persons referred to in section 11(1) to (4) of the Act to mediation before giving any direction under that section.

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