Company Name – General Conditions

Company Name – General Conditions

1. It is not necessary that the proposed name should be indicative of the main object of the company.
2. If the Company's main business is finance, housing finance, chit fund, leasing, investments, securities or combination thereof, such name shall not be allowed unless the name is indicative of such related financial activities, viz., Chit Fund/ Investment/ Loan, etc.
3. If the name includes the words indicative of a separate type of business constitution or legal person or any connotation thereof, the same shall not be allowed. For eg: cooperative, sehkari, trust, LLP, partnership, society, proprietor, HUF, firm, Inc., PLC, GmbH, SA, PTE, Sdn, AG etc.
4. Abbreviated name such as 'BERD limited' or '23K limited' cannot be given to a new company. However the companies well known in their respective field by abbreviated names are allowed to change their names to abbreviation of their existing name (for Delhi Cloth Mills limited to DCM Limited) after following the requirement of the Companies Act. Further, if the name is general like Cotton Textile Mills Ltd., or Silk Manufacturing Ltd., the name cannot be allowed and if name is specific like Calcutta Cotton Textiles Mills Limited or Lakshmi Silk Manufacturing Company Limited, the same can be allowed.
5. If the proposed name is identical to the name of a company dissolved as a result of liquidation proceeding, the name cannot be not be allowed for a period of 2 years from the date of such dissolution. Moreover, if the proposed name is identical with the name of a company which is struck off in pursuance of action under section 560 of the Act, then the same cannot be allowed for 20 years from the date of publication in the Official Gazette.
6. If the proposed names include words such as Insurance Bank, Stock Exchange, Venture Capital , Asset Management, Nidhi , Mutual Fund etc., the name can be be allowed with a declaration by the applicant that the requirements mandated by the respective Act/ Regulator, such as IRDA, RBI, SEBI, MCA etc. have been complied with by the applicant.
7. If the proposed name includes the word 'State', the same shall be allowed only in case the company is a government company. Also, if the proposed name is containing only the name of a continent, country, state, city such as Asia limited, Germany Limited, Haryana Limited, Mysore Limited, the same cannot be allowed;
8. If the proposed name contains any word or expression which is likely to give the impression that the company is in any way connected with, or having the patronage of, the Central Government, any State Government, or any local authority, corporation or body constituted by the Central or any State Government under any law for the time in force, unless the previous approval of Central Government has been obtained for the use of any such word or expression;
9. If a foreign company is incorporating its subsidiary company, the original name of the holding company as it is can be allowed with the addition of word India or name of any Indian state or city, if available otherwise as per the Guidelines.