Name of corporation and related issues
2023, c.2, s.156
8(1)The word “Limited”, “Limitée”, “Incorporated”, “Incorporée”, or “Corporation” or the abbreviation “Ltd.”, “Ltée”, “Inc.” or “Corp.” shall be part, other than only in a figurative or descriptive sense, of the name of every corporation but a corporation may use and may be legally designated by either the full or the abbreviated form.
8(2)The Director may exempt a body corporate continued as a corporation under this Act from the provisions of subsection (1).
8(3)Subject to subsection 10(1), a corporation may set out its name in its articles in an English form, a French form, an English form and a French form or in a combined English and French form and it may use and may be legally designated by any such form.
8(4)Subject to subsection 10(1), a corporation may, for use outside Canada, set out its name in its articles in any language form and it may use and may be legally designated by its name in any such form outside Canada.
8(5)A corporation shall set out its name in legible characters in all contracts, invoices, negotiable instruments and orders for goods or services issued or made by or on behalf of the corporation.
8(6)Repealed: 2023, c.2, s.7 2000, c.9, s.2; 2023, c.2, s.7; 2023, c.2, s.155; 2023, c.2, s.156