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Company Names: Identical Name Regulations 2015

The regulations establish the comparison framework for identifying duplicate company names. They should be distinguished from trademark protection and other naming restrictions, which are separate considerations from this instrument's identical-name test.

Source checked · 11 October 2026 Historical document

Elements disregarded in comparison

The comparison rules disregard specified components, including an initial definite article and prescribed endings for legal form. They also identify endings such as Singapore, Group, Holdings and International, along with listed domain suffixes. Adding one of these elements may therefore fail to distinguish a proposed name from an existing or reserved name under the instrument's comparison rules.

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