Limited Liability Partnerships (Identical Names) Regulations 2015

No. S 844

Limited Liability Partnerships Act

(CHAPTER 163A)

Limited Liability Partnerships (Identical
Names) Regulations 2015

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 56 of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act, the Minister for Finance makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Limited Liability Partnerships (Identical Names) Regulations 2015 and come into operation on 3 January 2016.

Identical names

2.—(1)  This regulation sets out the rules for determining whether a name is identical to —

(a) the name of any other limited liability partnership, a limited partnership or a corporation, or to a registered business name, referred to in section 19A(1)(b) of the Act;

(b) a name reserved under any of the provisions referred to in section 19A(1)(c) of the Act;

(c) any name of a limited liability partnership, business name, name of a company, name of a foreign company or name of a limited partnership, referred to in section 19A(2) of the Act; and

(d) any name of a foreign company, or name of a limited partnership, referred to in section 19A(3) of the Act.

(2)  Subject to paragraph (4), the following are to be disregarded:

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

(b) the following words where they appear at the end of a name:

(i) “Berhad” or “Bhd”;

(ii) “Limited” or “Ltd”;

(iii) “Limited Liability Partnership” or “LLP”;

(iv) “Limited Partnership” or “LP”;

(v) “Private” or “Pte”;

(vi) “Public Accounting Corporation” or “PAC”;

(vii) “Sendirian” or “Sdn”;

(c) the following words or expressions where they appear at the end of a name:

(i) “Asia”;

(ii) “Asia Pacific”;

(iii) “Associates”;

(iv) “company” or “and company”;

(v) “corporation”;

(vi) “Group”;

(vii) “Holding” or “Holdings”;

(viii) “Incorporated”;

(ix) “International”;

(x) “Partner” or “Partners”;

(xi) “Partnership” or “Partnerships”;

(xii) “Singapore”;

(xiii) “South Asia”;

(xiv) “South East Asia”;

(xv) “Trading”;

(xvi) “Worldwide”;

(xvii) “.co”;

(xviii) “.com”;

(xix) “.edu”;

(xx) “.gov”;

(xxi) “.net”;

(xxii) “.org”;

(xxiii) “.sg”;

(d) any word or expression which, in the opinion of the Registrar, is intended to represent any word or expression in —

(i) sub-paragraph (a) or (b); or

(ii) sub-paragraph (c);

(e) the plural version of any name;

(f) the type and case of letters, accents, spacing between letters, brackets, parentheses and punctuation marks.

(3)  The symbol “&” is to be treated as having the same meaning as the word “and”.

(4)  Paragraph (2)(c) and (d)(ii) does not apply if the relevant corporation —

(a) will be a partner of the limited liability partnership in relation to which an application is made to register under a proposed name and signifies its consent to the use of the name by that limited liability partnership; or

(b) is a partner of the limited liability partnership in relation to which an application is made to change its name to a proposed name and signifies its consent to the use of the name by that limited liability partnership.

(5)  In paragraph (4), “relevant corporation” means a corporation carrying on business or operating under a name which would be identical to a proposed name of a limited liability partnership after the application of the rules set out in paragraphs (2) and (3).

Revocation

3.  The Limited Liability Partnerships (Identical Names) Rules (R 1) are revoked.

Made on 21 December 2015.

LIM SOO HOON

Permanent Secretary
(Finance) (Performance),
Ministry of Finance,
Singapore.

[F14.1.43; AG/LEGIS/SL/163A/2015/3 Vol. 1]