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B-9.1 - Business Corporations Act

Section 199
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Prohibited names
2023, c.2, s.156
199(1)An extra-provincial corporation shall not be registered in its own name if that name is
(a) the name of or deceptively similar to the name of a corporation, a body corporate registered under this Part, a company under the Companies Act, a limited partnership formed or continued under the Limited Partnership Act, an extra-provincial limited partnership that has filed a declaration under the Limited Partnership Act, or a firm or person that has registered under the Partnerships and Business Names Registration Act, except if such corporation, body corporate, company, partnership, firm or person consents,
(b) prohibited by regulation or is deceptively misdescriptive,
(c) reserved for a corporation or an intended corporation under section 9,
(d) reserved for an extra-provincial corporation or an intended extra-provincial corporation under section 198, or
(e) reserved for a body corporate, firm or person under any other Act,
unless the extra-provincial corporation registers a business name in accordance with the Partnerships and Business Names Registration Act, under which the corporation will carry on business in New Brunswick.
199(2)If, through inadvertence or otherwise, an extra-provincial corporation is registered in contravention of subsection (1), the Director may, after giving the extra-provincial corporation an opportunity to be heard, require the extra-provincial corporation to register, in accordance with the Partnerships and Business Names Registration Act, a business name that he approves within sixty days after he so requires; and the extra-provincial corporation shall comply with any such requirement.
1984, c.L-9.1, s.48; 1986, c.62, s.22; 2023, c.2, s.142; 2023, c.2, s.155; 2023, c.2, s.156
Prohibited names
199(1)An extra-provincial corporation shall not be registered in its own name if that name is
(a) the name of or deceptively similar to the name of a corporation, a body corporate registered under this Part, a company under the Companies Act, a limited partnership formed or continued under the Limited Partnership Act, an extra-provincial limited partnership that has filed a declaration under the Limited Partnership Act, or a firm or person that has registered under the Partnerships and Business Names Registration Act, except if such corporation, body corporate, company, partnership, firm or person consents,
(b) prohibited by regulation or is deceptively misdescriptive,
(c) reserved for a corporation or an intended corporation under section 9,
(d) reserved for an extra-provincial corporation or an intended extra-provincial corporation under section 198, or
(e) reserved for a body corporate, firm or person under any other Act,
unless the extra-provincial corporation registers a business name in accordance with the Partnerships and Business Names Registration Act, under which the corporation will carry on business in New Brunswick.
199(2)If, through inadvertence or otherwise, an extra-provincial corporation is registered in contravention of subsection (1), the Director may, after giving the extra-provincial corporation an opportunity to be heard, require the extra-provincial corporation to register, in accordance with the Partnerships and Business Names Registration Act, a business name that he approves within sixty days after he so requires; and the extra-provincial corporation shall comply with any such requirement.
1984, c.L-9.1, s.48; 1986, c.62, s.22
Prohibited names
199(1)An extra-provincial corporation shall not be registered in its own name if that name is
(a) the name of or deceptively similar to the name of a corporation, a body corporate registered under this Part, a company under the Companies Act, a limited partnership formed or continued under the Limited Partnership Act, an extra-provincial limited partnership that has filed a declaration under the Limited Partnership Act, or a firm or person that has registered under the Partnerships and Business Names Registration Act, except if such corporation, body corporate, company, partnership, firm or person consents,
(b) prohibited by regulation or is deceptively misdescriptive,
(c) reserved for a corporation or an intended corporation under section 9,
(d) reserved for an extra-provincial corporation or an intended extra-provincial corporation under section 198, or
(e) reserved for a body corporate, firm or person under any other Act,
unless the extra-provincial corporation registers a business name in accordance with the Partnerships and Business Names Registration Act, under which the corporation will carry on business in New Brunswick.
199(2)If, through inadvertence or otherwise, an extra-provincial corporation is registered in contravention of subsection (1), the Director may, after giving the extra-provincial corporation an opportunity to be heard, require the extra-provincial corporation to register, in accordance with the Partnerships and Business Names Registration Act, a business name that he approves within sixty days after he so requires; and the extra-provincial corporation shall comply with any such requirement.
1984, c.L-9.1, s.48; 1986, c.62, s.22