Acts and Regulations

P-5 - Partnerships and Business Names Registration Act

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Restrictions as to name
13(1)Subject to subsection (2), no firm or person shall register a certificate under this Act stating as its name, a name that is
(a) identical with that registered and in use by another firm or person, with the name of a limited partnership formed or continued under the Limited Partnership Act or of an extra-provincial limited partnership that has filed a declaration under the Limited Partnership Act, with the name of a company under the Companies Act or of a corporation or body corporate under any other general or special Act, or that so nearly resembles such a name that it is likely to deceive, unless the existing firm, person, partnership, company, corporation or body corporate signifies in writing his or its consent to the use of the name in whole or in part,
(b) deceptively misdescriptive,
(c) prohibited by regulation, or
(d) reserved for a corporation, body corporate, firm or business or an intended corporation, body corporate, firm or business.
13(2)Subsection (1) does not apply to the name of a firm that carries on business in the name or names of one or more of the partners.
R.S., c.168, s.13; 1979, c.53, s.2; 1980, c.39, s.15; 1983, c.62, s.5; 1984, c.L-9.1, s.50; 1986, c.62, s.16