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”; |
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| | (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 marks; 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. |
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